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It looks and acts like a normal cell phone tower... so there is no good way to provide protection against it.

• rhizome 12y ago
  Stingray apparently works by overloading signal over an area. I'm sure some math comparing device motion with sudden-tower-appearance could be put together into a reasonable heuristic.
  • X-Istence 12y ago
    Stingray works by having a stronger signal (It's closer to the user, kind of like a wifi hotspot). This can happen at anytime anyway, carriers have put up mobile towers before so that they can take down a single or multiple towers in an area for maintenance, or to provide extra coverage. Are there possible ways to detect it, possibly, but will there be a HUGE amount of false positives, I fear there will be.
    • rhizome 12y ago
      My solution was only with 10 seconds of thought from a layman. I'm not even an Electrical Engineer. I'm guessing the best-of-the-best in the Google-rola and Apple-A7+ hives are capable of deeper thoughts on the issue. They're at least closer to the point of contact from the tower than I am.
• dcherman 12y ago
  That's pretty scary. That implies that in addition to the target, anyone in the general vicinity of the target ( up to whatever the range of these things are ) would be tracked as well. It's a good thing we can trust our agencies not to keep databases containing this unrelated but invasive information....right?
  • X-Istence 12y ago
    That is indeed correct, anyone within the vicinity would also connect to the tower...