RE: Mystery fake cell phone towers intercepting cellular data across U.S.

mcb1 — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 21:51:40 GMT

That's a lot of infrastructure to just monitor existing calls.

I'm always concerned when the information doesn't come from an independent source with nothing to gain.

Could it be that these are in case the local provider's service fails.?

In NZ there are various license's to operate, and I'm sure there must be similar things with the FCC, so maybe the owner is listed somewhere.

Mark

RE: Mystery fake cell phone towers intercepting cellular data across U.S.

DAB — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 21:04:36 GMT

Hi Cabe,

Before you make the NSA a bad guy, remember, they have an executive order allowing them to collect data in cooperation of the telecommunications agency.

Besides, it was the British that taught the US how to do these things.

I would also like to remind our European members that as far as I know, all European governments monitor communications.

So nobody can claim to be surprised that somebody is listening. THEY ALL ARE!

It is standard operating procedure world wide to used the communications equipment for all kinds of purposes. Each government has permitted this practice as part of world wide criminal monitoring.

So Don't panic. Cell phones are just the newest communication device. If they could monitor your land lines, what makes you think they would approve cell phones if they could not monitor them?

Just a thought,

DAB