Stingrays in D.C. - Stingrays in your backyard
John Young
jya at pipeline.com
Thu Sep 12 11:28:42 PDT 2019
Yep, and much of the counterespionage.
At 02:00 PM 9/12/2019, you wrote:
>âââââââ Original Message âââââââ
>On Thursday, September 12, 2019 5:50 PM,
>coderman <coderman at protonmail.com> wrote:
> > ... In some cases, the device might force
> every phone in range to drop to a 2G
> connection. This may still allow 911 calls to
> take place, but almost any other form of
> communication will be impossible as long as the Stingray is in use.
>
>
>i haven't seen this brought up before, but
>Stingray type devices** are also used in
>extra-judicial "disruption strategies", where a
>target's communications are denied and interfered with.
>
>See also:
>
>https://www.byline.com/column/69/article/1696
>"""
>Disruption strategies are to be implemented,
>according to the guidance document, when
>sufficient evidence is lacking that someone is a
>threat; when agents do not have the grounds to
>continue an actual investigation according to
>internal guidelines; and when there is no way to
>bring formal criminal charges against an individual.
>...
>According to the FBI's own internal guidelines
>in Section IV(V), a âDisruption Strategyâ
>may be implemented when the investigation has
>closed, when the threat is over, and
>essentially, when there are no more legal,
>investigatory or constitutional means of continuing the investigation.
>
>Disruption, then, seems to be a last resort used
>when the FBI's investigations lead to a
>dead-end. And it is a strategy to be deployed even when there is no threat.
>"""
>
>
>and:
>"""
>Requests, orders, configuration requirements,
>technical manuals and any other responsive
>materials regarding "lawful intercept" of
>cellular communications, specifically LTE, CDMA,
>or GSM communications, requesting specific
>service levels during intercept, including "baud
>rate match" terminology, "channel rate match",
>"CBR-channel", "Fixed-bandwidth channel", and
>"Constant rate channel" terms indicating
>override of default network operator capacity
>provisioning during content collection. Specific
>requested rates or channel capacities include
>"0.5G", "1/2G", "half-G", "1.5G", "GPRS",
>"1xRTT", or "SMS-Only" service capacities.
>Records requested under any authority in scope
>of this request - focus is on technology rather
>than statutory authorization enabling collection.
>"""
>-
>https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/degradedowngradedualfade-23083/
>
>
>chickens coming home to roost...
>
>
>best regards,
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