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FAKE cellphone towers; spying on you
Topic Started: Sep 4 2014, 11:12 AM (2,294 Views)
aaronvincent
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Mr Mojo Risin'

Apparently these "fake" cellphone towers have been found that do not function as a tower at all. Instead they actually listen to your calls and read your texts! No one knows who exactly owns them but a good portion of them have been found to be close to military bases. This is wrong on so many levels

http://money.msn.com/investing/post--mysterious-fake-cellphone-towers-found-across-us
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Freeman
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The Family Man

You think the Government is just idiots or they got caught? It's one or the other. Either they let themselves be spied on or they have been spying on us.

I personally don't mind the second one. Sure, my privacy, blah blah whatever. But I signed that away a long time ago.
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Silver2K


I read the article. I don't get it. I am in the cellular industry and I do not understand the rationale / premise. It's illegal to transmit on cellular bands unauthorized. And the cellular providers test for interference. Therefore if a third party was using cellular spectrum the provider would find it and shut it down. This implies it is some sort of government tower. I am aware the govt has equipment to eavesdrop on cell phones. But it is not clear why they would have a fixed site for that purpose. My understanding is they eavesdrop in a mobile situation. Newer technologies authenticate the network. Therefore WCDMA & LTE cannot be spoofed into talking to a fake network. The best I can come up with is they are govt towers set up for experiments, perhaps to test how to jam cell phones or to test how to spoof phones. They probably have permission from the provider to use the spectrum. My .02.
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elijah
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C'mon Turbo. You're smarter than that, don't you see the road this can lead us down? I can tell you're a bright kid, and there's lots of bright young folks from your generation, but it can be frustrating when the reaction is given, like the one you give. And yes, the government is a bunch of idiots...
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Freeman
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elijah
Sep 4 2014, 12:59 PM
C'mon Turbo. You're smarter than that, don't you see the road this can lead us down? I can tell you're a bright kid, and there's lots of bright young folks from your generation, but it can be frustrating when the reaction is given, like the one you give. And yes, the government is a bunch of idiots...
Explain more!

Sure, I know that there is a fine establishment of Freedom in the country and it is where our roots have grown. But my statement still holds true. I signed away a lot more than just my privacy once and I'd be willing to do it again so others can enjoy their lives.

The issue with the government may not be that they are idiots, that is a bit harsh. I still work for the government and we are all just regular folks. It's just that everything is so slow. It only takes one commissioner or executive to completely delay something from coming to fruition. Our system is so bogged down with BS that we are always reacting to situations.

That is not a political stand point, mind you. Just my everyday experience at work.
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2000Firefly1.3L
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There are evil people in charge of this. Don't let it get passed you.
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Freeman
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2000Firefly1.3L
Sep 5 2014, 11:09 AM
There are evil people in charge of this. Don't let it get passed you.
:dunno

There are evil people everywhere. And even that is just based on where you are standing. Perspective is something you should consider.
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Cobb
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Ever think Google and Facebook were shells of a company to make spying on us easier or make us spill our guts directly and photos to boot? :popcorn
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TimmyD
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...who the frack knows...the world is heading into the shitter; I know it, you know it, they know it and the govt. knows it. They're just trying to decide how to divide it up once the dust settles.
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dayle1960
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9-11 is just around the corner. Some of the blogs I read are theorizing that the bad guys from the deserts are going to do some bad things in 'merika. Wouldn't hurt to have a little bit of water and food handy if the electricity goes out. Our electrical grid is fragile and there have been attempts to sabotage some power sub-stations. If several sleeper cells walk up to the substations and put a bunch of bullets in transformers, then there might be a cascading effect and the lights might go out.

Something to think about.
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t3ragtop
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Turbo3 and Twincam Tweaker

take off your tin hats, take a breath, and remember that the spooks have read your posts and added your statements to their files under your names and locations. :D
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Bad Bent
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t3ragtop
Sep 6 2014, 04:50 PM
take off your tin foil hats, take a breath, and remember that the spooks have read your posts and added your statements to their files under your names and locations. :D
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Cubey
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Silver2K
Sep 4 2014, 12:56 PM
I read the article. I don't get it. I am in the cellular industry and I do not understand the rationale / premise. It's illegal to transmit on cellular bands unauthorized. And the cellular providers test for interference. Therefore if a third party was using cellular spectrum the provider would find it and shut it down. This implies it is some sort of government tower. I am aware the govt has equipment to eavesdrop on cell phones. But it is not clear why they would have a fixed site for that purpose. My understanding is they eavesdrop in a mobile situation. Newer technologies authenticate the network. Therefore WCDMA & LTE cannot be spoofed into talking to a fake network. The best I can come up with is they are govt towers set up for experiments, perhaps to test how to jam cell phones or to test how to spoof phones. They probably have permission from the provider to use the spectrum. My .02.
This is a completely bogus story to appeal to the paranoid delusional population.

It sure does work, I have to give it that!

You can put this in the "kook" file with Area 51, FEMA camps, and other insane ramblings.

(Even the crybaby mad hatter himself Glenn Beck said there weren't any FEMA camps!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/04/07/debunking-web-myths-about-fema-camps/ )
Edited by Cubey, Sep 6 2014, 06:11 PM.
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myredvert
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You can put this in the "kook" file with Area 51...
What about Area 51?
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Cubey
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Sep 6 2014, 06:49 PM
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You can put this in the "kook" file with Area 51...
What about Area 51?
Aliens and such...
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