Friday, September 19, 2014

Who Owns The 'Interceptor Cellphone Towers' Near The White House And Congress?


‘Interceptor’ Cellphone Towers Found Near White House, Senate -- Washington Times

Mysterious “interceptor” cellphone towers that can listen in someone’s phone call despite not being part of any phone networks have turned up near the White House and Senate.

A company that specializes in selling secure mobile phones discovered the existence of several of the towers in and around the nation’s capitol.

“It’s highly unlikely that federal law enforcement would be using mobile interceptors near the Senate,” ESD America CEO Les Goldsmith told the technology website Venture Beat on Thursday.

The towers are also capable of loading spyware onto a mobile device before passing off a victim’s call to a legitimate network.

“My suspicion is that it is a foreign entity,” he told Venture Beat.

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My Comment: The big question that needs to be answered is .... why are they still standing there.

1 comment:

D.Plowman said...

“My suspicion is that it is a foreign entity,” he told Venture Beat.

... Err, what?

Is he saying that the US government is so lax in what happens in its own backyard that they won't notice a couple of very suspicious new 'towers' being built on its doorstep?

Yeah, right. Say what you will about US intelligence, they won't miss that. The towers are quite obviously owned by the intelligence community and I'm surprised their placement hasn't caused any privacy debates within Congress, but then again, I would wager that certain influential members of Congress are well aware of the towers and their true function and accept it as a neccessary evil for 'security purposes'...