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| From | RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> |
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| Subject | Re: Killer drones home in on cell phones |
| Date | Sun, 16 Feb 2014 23:29:26 +0000 (UTC) |
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On 2014-02-16, tdk <forum.tdk@squte.com> wrote: > tdk writes: > > The Intercept is reporting that a new whistle-blower confirms US drones in Afghanistan > home in on cell phones to target individuals. > "[The NSA] also equips drones and other aircraft with devices known as 'virtual > base-tower transceivers' � creating, in effect, a fake cell phone tower that can > force a targeted person�s device to lock onto the NSA�s receiver without their knowledge." > "What�s more, he adds, the NSA often locates drone targets by analyzing the activity of a SIM card, rather than the actual content of the calls. Based on his experience, he has come to believe that the drone program amounts to little more than death by unreliable metadata." > "https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/10/the-nsas-secret-role/" > I'm busy writing a short story: a dystopia set in about 2030. This little gem will make a nice addition to my depiction of a world turned in on itself. Again, truth is stranger than fiction. Some day, we'll look back and say 'we brought it on ourselves.' The irony is, while Orwell wrote about a surveillance state willfully imposed on the people, our surveillance state basically came about by consumer choice. "Ooh, shiny!"
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Killer drones home in on cell phones "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-16 17:18 +0000
Re: Killer drones home in on cell phones RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-16 23:29 +0000
Re: Killer drones home in on cell phones Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-17 00:08 -0800
Re: Killer drones home in on cell phones "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-17 04:11 +0411
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