LEAKED CATALOGUE REVEALS A VAST ARRAY OF MILITARY SPY GEAR OFFERED TO U.S. POLICE
A CONFIDENTIAL, 120-PAGE catalogue of spy equipment, originating from British defense firm Cobham and circulated to U.S. law enforcement, touts gear that canintercept wireless calls and text messages, locatepeople via their mobile phones, and jamcellular communications in a particular area.
The catalogue was obtained by The Intercept as part of a large trove of documentsoriginating within the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, where spokesperson Molly Best confirmed Cobham wares have beenpurchased but did not providefurther information.The documentprovides a rarelook at the wide range ofelectronic surveillance tactics usedby police and militaries in the U.S. and abroad, offering equipmentranging from black boxes that can monitoran entire town’s cellular signals to microphones hidden in lighters and cameras hidden in trashcans. Markings date it to 2014.
“By design, these devices are indiscriminate and operate across a wide area where many people may be present,” said Richard Tynan, a technologist at Privacy International, of the gear in the Cobham catalogue. Such “indiscriminate surveillance systems that are not targeted in any way based on prior suspicion” are “the essence of mass surveillance,” he added.
When are we going to get some technical schematics/generic software implementations for the Stingray and other surveillance technology? Its almost a certainty that somewhere in snowdens leak is a technical description of a Stingray's internal mechanics and a complete overview of the software it uses to interacts with a cell network and manipulate other devices.
Is there any purpose discussing this shit if we will never be shown enough of how the tech actually functions to eliminate the vulnerabilities they exploit and eventually engineer permanent countermeasures?
The private internet and networking infrastructure in general is in need of a massive counter-surveillance firmware upgrade immediately.
Gavin Barnes
Can't believe this is being slid. Sup Forums really has changed since I've last browsed here
Jordan Lopez
>When are we going to get some technical schematics/generic software implementations for the Stingray and other surveillance technology?
You need a cop to actually not be a authoritarian asshole and release the info on the gadgets his department is illegally using against American citizens.
Xavier Turner
Bump This is fucked.
Josiah Cook
leak bump
Gavin Cook
Everything that was outrageous to us just becomes normalized
They are pushing it on so many different fronts that we can't keep up
Mason Stewart
interestbump
Dominic Mitchell
well, time to go innawoods
Justin Lee
Looks like he did, and ignoring all the technical info Snowden must have given Greenwald for a second, it shouldn't be very difficult at all for the intercept or a similar publication to put out a bounty on this kind of info and receive a result at some point. When Michael Hastings got blown up Forbes posted a notice looking for somebody to demonstrate the feasibility of sabotaging a car remotely and they had a a 15 minute video put together with a couple MIT edgelords showing off their own home-brewed car hax and exploits.
Don't even care. Wish/hope Canadian gov't has the same options.
Austin Kelly
Wowzer!
Alexander Anderson
blahblahblah we have known about this for years, google stingray you fucking bluepilled tards
Daniel Walker
>Is there any purpose discussing this shit if we will never be shown enough of how the tech actually functions to eliminate the vulnerabilities they exploit and eventually engineer permanent countermeasures?
never most likely. they have the encryption keys they carriers use for the gsm networks and beyond. they were GIVEN access to this stuff
