ACLU sues Homeland Security over ‘stingray’ cell phone surveillance
ACLU sues Homeland Security over ‘stingray’ cell phone surveillance
The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in federal court on Wednesday after the organization claimed the agencies “failed to produce records” relating to cell site simulators — or “stingrays.”
https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/11/aclu-cbp-ice-stingray-surveillance/
The Third Pary doctrine allows the Government to end run the 4th amendment if you disclosed info to a 3rd party. In this instance, the government is claiming they do not have to talk about the technology at all, even to the point of proving it actually does what they claim.
Hopefully the ACLU can put a end to that, the government should not be able to contract with any organization that prevents them from disclosing their activity to the public. Seems law enforcement has lost sight of who they answer to, which should be the people of this nation.
There are companies that specialize in ad-hoc towers to provide service. Example: Mobilitie in Chicago. Very important piece of mobile data infrastructure, but a rogue tower is still a real security risk. AIMSICD is an Android app to detect IMSI-Catchers. These devices are false mobile towers (base stations) acting between the target mobile phone(s) and the real towers of service providers. As such they are considered a Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attack. This surveillance technology is also known as “StingRay”, “Cellular Interception” and alike.
https://cellularprivacy.github.io/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/
Those ‘stingray’ detector apps are basically useless, say researchers.
Researchers found at least one major flaw in the five leading stingray surveillance trackers for Android.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/stingray-detector-apps-andorid-basically-useless-research/
Antenna Structure Registration (ASR) – Overview
https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/support/antenna-structure-registration-asr-resources/antenna-structure-registration-asr
Tower data is public record.
Search aggregator: http://www.antennasearch.com
[0] What is OpenCelliD?
https://opencellid.org/
OpenCellID and MLS contributor’s app
https://github.com/zamojski/TowerCollector/
[1] https://github.com/zamojski/TowerCollector/
[2] https://location.services.mozilla.com/
Search for Cell Towers http://www.cellreception.com/towers/
We can have E2E encryption on cellphones today, just make calls and send texts over Signal (with other people who also have Signal installed).
Here’s an article on using SIM cards as a secure element https://nelenkov.blogspot.com/2013/09/using-sim-card-as-secure-element.html
American carriers who care about preventing government spying go to jail.
The CEO of Qwest
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/09/30/a-ceo-who-resisted-nsa-spying-is-out-of-prison-and-he-feels-vindicated-by-snowden-leaks/
comment “The way that Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio so meaningfully resisted the government that he was convicted of insider trading for telling people his company would be successful when it actually relied on a government contract that was pulled in retaliation, which he couldn’t use as a defense in court because of national security concerns? For which he served four years in prison, and Qwest no longer exists? That sort of meaningfully resist? The message to me from that case is clear—if the US government tells you to jump, you answer, how high.”