IF YOU HAVE A CELLPHONE, Read the following, from The Washington Post, 14 November, 2014. A Synopsis The U.S. Marshals Service is harvesting large amounts of data from Americans cellphones through devices mounted on airplanes (Cesna aircraft from at least five metropolitan airports.) The planes are equipped with two-foot-square devices, sometimes called dirtboxes, that mimic cell towers and trick cellphones into reporting their unique registration information and general location. The Marshals Service, which protects the Federal Judiciary and apprehends federal fugitives, is a component of the Justice Department. The Marshals Service also deploys StingRay devices in vehicles to collect the serial numbers of individual cellphones and locate them. The dirtbox technology is more sophisticated than the StingRay. Because the devices are deployed in the air, they can gather more data than a device in a car on the ground. It can identify your phone and the technology can pinpoint your location within about three meters, or to a specific room in a building! The Marshals Service, the Nations oldest Federal law enforcement agency, also operates the witness security program and seizes assets acquired by criminal activities. If you have a cell phone and its on, there is no place you can hide!!!
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 21:47:30 +0000
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