{"id":15400,"date":"2015-12-18T06:57:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T11:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15400"},"modified":"2015-12-18T06:57:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T11:57:51","slug":"stingrays-a-secret-catalogue-of-gear-for-spying-on-your-cellphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15400","title":{"rendered":"Stingrays: A Secret Catalogue of Gear for Spying on Your Cellphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2015\/12\/17\/a-secret-catalogue-of-government-gear-for-spying-on-your-cellphone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stingrays: A Secret Catalogue of Gear for Spying on Your Cellphone<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>THE INTERCEPT\u00a0HAS OBTAINED\u00a0a\u00a0secret, internal U.S. government\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/surveillance-catalogue\/\">catalogue<\/a>\u00a0of dozens of cellphone surveillance devices used by the military and by intelligence agencies. The document, thick with previously undisclosed information, also offers rare\u00a0insight into the spying capabilities of federal law enforcement and local police inside the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The catalogue includes details on the Stingray, a well-known brand of surveillance gear, as well as Boeing \u201cdirt boxes\u201d and dozens of more obscure devices that can be mounted on vehicles, drones, and piloted aircraft. Some are designed to be used at static locations, while others can be discreetly carried by an individual. They have names like Cyberhawk, Yellowstone, Blackfin, Maximus, Cyclone, and Spartacus.\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Within the catalogue, the NSA is listed as the vendor of one device, while another was developed for use by the CIA, and another was developed for a\u00a0special forces requirement.\u00a0Nearly a third of the entries focus on equipment that seems to have\u00a0never been described in public before.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"img-wrap align-center width-auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/surveillance-catalogue\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-article-medium wp-image-46178\" src=\"https:\/\/prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org\/wp-uploads\/sites\/1\/2015\/12\/TSSC_CatalogueCTA_01_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><em>The Intercept<\/em>\u00a0obtained the catalogue from a source within the intelligence community concerned about the militarization of domestic law enforcement. (The original is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/document\/2015\/12\/17\/government-cellphone-surveillance-catalogue\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>A few of the devices can house a \u201ctarget list\u201d of as many as 10,000 unique phone identifiers. Most can be used to geolocate people, but the documents indicate that some have more advanced capabilities, like eavesdropping on calls and spying on SMS messages. Two systems, apparently designed for use on captured phones, are touted as having the ability to extract media files, address books, and notes, and one can retrieve deleted text messages.<\/p>\n<p>Above all, the catalogue represents a trove of details on surveillance devices developed for military and intelligence purposes but increasingly used by law enforcement agencies to spy on people and convict them of\u00a0crimes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stingrays: A Secret Catalogue of Gear for Spying on Your Cellphone THE INTERCEPT\u00a0HAS OBTAINED\u00a0a\u00a0secret, internal U.S. government\u00a0catalogue\u00a0of dozens of cellphone surveillance devices used by the military and by intelligence agencies. The document, thick with previously undisclosed information, also offers rare\u00a0insight into the spying capabilities of federal law enforcement and local police inside the United States. 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