[Scan-DC] Cryptophone Device

[Blair Thompson]

[Scan-DC] Secret US spy program targeted Americans' cellphones

http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/scan-dc/2014/021001.html

http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/scan-dc/2014/021002.html

The "fake communications towers" meme has been a popular one recently. I don't know what to make of it.

Faux cell towers are real, but fake intercept towers are phony
  
http://www.wirelessestimator.com/breaking_news.cfm#faux

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In early September, the story of fake cell towers being installed across the country received legs from a Popular Science article titled: “Mysterious Phony Cell Towers Could Be Intercepting Your Calls.”
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The confusion began when Les Goldsmith, the CEO of ESD America, which sells the CryptoPhone 500, provided Popular Science with a map identifying where his $3,500 encryption handset found “17 different phony cell towers known as interceptors.”
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---------- Original Message ----------
From: Merlin <merlin at merlinjacobs.com>
To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Scan-DC] Secret US spy program targeted Americans' cellphones
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 19:55:29 -0500

Published November 13, 2014

The Wall Street Journal

The Justice Department is scooping up data from thousands of cellphones 
through fake communications towers deployed on airplanes,...

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Alan Henney" <alan at henney.com>
To: "Scan DC" <Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [Scan-DC] Cryptophone Device
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 01:52:19 -0500

>From Monday’s WUSA newscast.  Has anybody heard of this Cryptophone device?
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