[Scan-DC] Cryptophone Device

[Andrew Clegg]

I'm not sure the fake intercept towers are phony. There is plenty of hardware and software that can spoof GSM base stations. An equivalent project for LTE base stations is in the works. See links below.
Andy

Hardware (among many others): http://www.ettus.com/
Open-source GSM base station software: http://openbts.org/
Open-source LTE base station project: http://openlte.sourceforge.net/

> From: b_thom at juno.com
> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:38:38 +0000
> To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Cryptophone Device
> 
> [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
> 
> >>>>
> 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.”
> ....
> 
> 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.”
> >>>>
> 
> ---------- 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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