Help! What is this thing? Spotted at the Black Lives Matter protest today in Boston, on a truck with commercial plates. I saw the same piece of technology at an Occupy Wall Street protest in New York in 2012, and wrote about it here. I'm still not clear on what, exactly, it's for.
The FBI assures lawmakers that they obtain warrants to use controversial cell-site simulators, otherwise known as stingrays—except when they don't, which is pretty much always, according to information obtained by Senators Leahy and Grassley.
How do the feds use controversial cell site simulators, also known as 'stingrays'? We are about to find out.
Police in & around #Ferguson appear to be targeting individuals for organizing & creating "trouble." Multiple arrests last 24 hrs
The high tech military equipment federal grant and gift programs have bestowed on state and local law enforcement isn't helping Pennsylvania police find a man they say killed a state trooper before fleeing into the woods.
The NY Daily News reports:
Dear FBI,
Everyone who pays attention to surveillance news knows that you've been working with police departments to help them use cell site simulators to spy on people's phones. Anyone who has access to the internet can easily learn this fact. It is not a secret, and nor are the capabilities of IMSI catchers secrets.
