Mysterious Fake Cellphone Towers Are Intercepting Calls All Over The US
Jack Dutton, Provided by Business Insider

Published 9:26 am, Wednesday, September 3, 2014



Seventeen fake cellphone towers were discovered across the U.S. last week, according to a report in Popular Science.

Rather than offering you cellphone service, the towers appear to be connecting to nearby phones, bypassing their encryption, and either tapping calls or reading texts.

Les Goldsmith, the CEO of ESD America, used ESD's CryptoPhone 500 to detect 17 bogus cellphone towers. ESD is a leading American defense and law enforcement technology provider based in Las Vegas.

With most phones, these fake communication towers are undetectable. But not for the CryptoPhone 500, a customized Android device that is disguised as a Samsung Galaxy S III but has highly advanced encryption.

Goldsmith told Popular Science: "Interceptor use in the U.S. is much higher than people had anticipated. One of our customers took a road trip from Florida to North Carolina and he found eight different interceptors on that trip. We even found one at South Point Casino in Las Vegas.”

The towers were found in July, but the report implied that there may have been more out there.

Although it is unclear who owns the towers, ESD found that several of them were located near U.S. military bases.

"Whose interceptor is it? Who are they, that's listening to calls around military bases? Is it just the U.S. military, or are they foreign governments doing it? The point is: we don't really know whose they are," Goldsmith said to Popular Science.

It's probably not the NSA — that agency can tap all it wants without the need for bogus towers, VentureBeat reported:

Not the NSA, cloud security firm SilverSky CTO/SVP Andrew Jaquith told us. “The NSA doesn’t need a fake tower,” he said. “They can just go to the carrier” to tap your line.

ComputerWorld points out that the fake towers give themselves away by crushing down the performance of your phone from 4G to 2G while the intercept is taking place. So if you see your phone operating on a slow download signal while you're near a military base ... maybe make that call from somewhere else.

In an amazing coincidence, police departments in a handful of U.S. cities have been operating "Stingray" or "Hailstorm" towers, which — you guessed it — conduct surveillance on mobile phone activity. They do that by jamming mobile phone signals, forcing phones to drop down from 4G and 3G network bands to the older, more insecure 2G band.

Source? besides the one given.

Sorry, I should've left a link. Business Insider and SF Chronicle. LINK: http://www.sfgate.com/technology/busine ... 731884.php

wackyjacky wrote:Sorry, I should've left a link. Business Insider and SF Chronicle. LINK: http://www.sfgate.com/technology/busine ... 731884.php

So what do you think?

According to Dog and Orange we are homophobe islamphobe everythingphobe paranoid fear mongering..bigot southern raciest bible belting extremist.


The internet and technology are awesome tools...but what if there will be a time when they can go back and get you based on your comments on the internet?

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What do I think ? It's probably Military Intelligence, since so far the towers have been found around bases and the NSA doesn't need that shit. They tap directly from the provider. If they find a lot more of them, who the fuck knows ? Maybe the guys with the black helicopters.

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frank lee bent wrote:only americans have to fill in those forms for cambodian banks i think. they have had a team from IRS in PP training the banks for some time now.

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