Mysterious fake cellphone towers found across US

[kent]

No reason for concern, right?

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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.

[Artemis Windsong]

Very disturbing being so close to military bases.

This is the continuation that our private lives are being violated in so many ways.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

I don't know- maybe the US Military is better than we give them credit for and they're there to keep an eye on our own.

[djAdvocate]

Sept 4, 2014 10:55:25 GMT -5 Artemis Windsong said:

Very disturbing being so close to military bases.

This is the continuation that our private lives are being violated in so many ways.

what are you thinking, Artemis?

[sesfw]

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

Hopefully they find out who planted them and get this cleared up quickly.

[wyouser]

Russian evesdroppers using Chinese equipment installed by underpaid undocumented workers   Just a thought.

[Tennesseer]

The conversations are being beamed to the aliens living in Area 51.  They are learning our languages and will soon be walking amongst us.

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

Sept 4, 2014 17:35:34 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

The conversations are being beamed to the aliens living in Area 51.  They are learning our languages and will soon be walking amongst us.

I thought they already are walking amongst us - didn't you see MIB?

Maybe the military themselves, put them up near bases - to scramble their own communications systems from eavesdroppers.

[Jaguar]

Sept 4, 2014 17:35:34 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

The conversations are being beamed to the aliens living in Area 51.  They are learning our languages and will soon be walking amongst us.

Don't be talking about my heritage like that, like really.

[Tennesseer]

Sept 4, 2014 17:52:09 GMT -5 Jaguar said:

Sept 4, 2014 17:35:34 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

The conversations are being beamed to the aliens living in Area 51.  They are learning our languages and will soon be walking amongst us.

Don't be talking about my heritage like that, like really.

I see your radio signals were beamed ìn from the San Fernando Valley.  All that Valley Girl speech.  

[Sum Dum Gai]

Thank the Patriot Act. The military is now authorized to gather intelligence using almost any means on US citizens as long as they can claim they're looking for terrorists. The NSA is already listening to our calls and reading our email anyway. What's one more government flunky violating your privacy?