Fake Cellphone Towers are Listening to You

[SGOS]

I don't know what to make of this.  No one even knows what agency or government is using them.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mysterious-fake-cellphone-towers-intercepting-162645809.html

Seventeen fake cellphone towers were discovered across the U.S. last week, according to a report in Popular Science.
Rather than offering you cellphone service, the towers appear to be connecting to nearby phones, bypassing their encryption, and either tapping calls or reading texts.

Les Goldsmith, the CEO of ESD America, used ESD's CryptoPhone 500 to detect 17 bogus cellphone towers. ESD is a leading American defense and law enforcement technology provider based in Las Vegas.

With most phones, these fake communication towers are undetectable. But not for the CryptoPhone 500,  a customized Android device that is disguised as a Samsung Galaxy S III but has highly advanced encryption.

Goldsmith told Popular Science: " Interceptor use in the U.S. is much higher than people had anticipated. One of our customers took a road trip from Florida to North Carolina and he found eight different interceptors on that trip. We even found one at South Point Casino in Las Vegas.”

The towers were found in July, but the report implied that there may have been more out there.

Although it is unclear who owns the towers, ESD found that several of them were located near U.S. military bases.

"Whose interceptor is it?

[GrinningYMIR]

NSA, China, Iran, Russia, CIA, FBI, NAACP, MSNBC, Mcdonalds, Wal-Mart, Drew Barrymore

One of those HAS to be the answer

[SGOS]

Maybe just some snoopy rich guy.  But I need to know where this stuff goes, otherwise I could wake up some morning and realize I've been featured on Wiki-Leaks.

[stromboli]

Lol. I wonder how often do these listeners accidentally tap in to a relative's smart phone and discover their nephew is jerking off to pictures of Justin Bieber.

[Solitary]

  I don't care, I don't have a cell phone.

[stromboli]

I have the most basic cellphone and service-Tracfone, with an Alcatel phone- money can buy. It works in all the same places and takes pictures like any other phone. If I lose it I can replace it at any Walmart in the world. If they want to waste time trying to interpret my texting, have at it. The reason for this is the places I hang out don't have phone service anyway, so I'm not going to be doing a lot of calling.

[MagetheEntertainer]

Well I just opened a mobile phone sex line from my cellphone so whoever the fuck is listening and getting off to my conversations owes me money!

[stromboli]

If you want to find out who they belong to, disable one and keep a hidden video camera pointed at it. Whoever comes to fix it is your party.