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[–] 35 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Great example of slippery slope privacy invasion in action. These stingray device were introduced for "counter terrorism" because who would support terrorists.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Everyone supports terrorists. The difference is if you support the state doing terrorism. If you're using violence for political gain, that's the definition of terrorism. States do that all the time. That's one of the primary roles of police in the US in fact.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not sure if this is a thing on other android /iOS devices,but this setting is very much appreciated on graphrneOS

    And you can set your network to ONLY use LTE and check the towers your phone is using by using the hidden testing setting on Android by entering

    *#*#4636#*#*
    

    on your phones default dialer.

    And this app for android is particularly useful:

    https://f-droid.org/packages/com.craxiom.networksurvey

    Scans cell towers, WiFi signals, Bluetooth, and notifies if a new tower is found.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    You can also just access cell infra operator log. I can imagine they have a realtime API.

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  • 2 comments in c/privacy@programming.dev view that post
    [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Would be nice to know if a stinger is in your area via radio scanning, looking for "oddball" towers coming up at random. Not sure how one would go about setting that up.

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    They don't really have to. They can just submit numbers to service providers and the phone company will track them.

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  • 1 comment in c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se view that post
    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Thanks Captain Obvious

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