Article 3QMWE News crew discovers 40 cellphone-tracking devices operating around DC

News crew discovers 40 cellphone-tracking devices operating around DC

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Cory Doctorow
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An NBC investigative journalism team and a security researcher went wardriving around the DC area with a cell-site-simulator detector that would tell them whenever they came in range of a fake cellphone tower that tried to trick their phones into connecting to it in order to covertly track their locations (some cell site simulators can also hack phones to spy on SMS, calls and data). (more")

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