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Title: WSJ: Department of Justice uses fake cell towers on airplanes to capture data from mobile phones Post by: HCK on November 14, 2014, 03:00:27 pm WSJ: Department of Justice uses fake cell towers on airplanes to capture data from mobile phones
The Wall Street Journal reported today that the United States Department of Justice has been using planes equipped with devices that pose as cellular towers (called “dirtboxes”) to collect data from suspected criminals’ cell phones—and capturing data from innocent bystanders in the process. The devices are capable of capturing data from “tens of thousands” of […]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=352520&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /> Source: WSJ: Department of Justice uses fake cell towers on airplanes to capture data from mobile phones (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~3/slFxT3r-PXc/) |