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A Stingray doesn't intercept your call to a suspected drug-dealer? What does it do then?
by wavefunction 10y ago
A Stingray doesn't intercept your call to a suspected drug-dealer? What does it do then?
- ProAm 10y agoIt provides your location and meta phone data.
- sli 10y agoThis is not true. Interception of communications is one of the Stingray's uses, as well as extraction of data from a phone's internal storage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker
- bpchaps 10y agoI had a very long debate with someone on this about its MitM uses and it confuses the crap out of me when people say it's not used for that. For some reason many people seem to think that, even though there's enough information for research, that it's not what they're used for. The same folk love to critique and minimize those with privacy concerns for wearing "tin foil hats". I really, really don't understand it considering all that's happened...
- tedunangst 10y agoHow does it extract data from the phone's internal storage?
- DigitalJack 10y agoprovides a venue for MITM of cloud syncing/storage.
- tedunangst 10y agoI would not describe that as "extraction of data", but fair enough.
- monocasa 10y agoTower to baseband injected code (via some update mechanism explicitly placed in the code, or an exploit) that then now has DMA access to physical memory?
- ProAm 10y agoThe data it is extracting is largely meta data about the phone's identity, the wikipedia article you link to even states that.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoMeta phone data like the number that you called? That's the drug dealer's number, in this example. That's an notification of a call, but not of the contents. So is that an intercept? I would say no, but it depends on your definition of "intercept".