Stingrays in D.C. - Stingrays in your backyard

[John Young]

Yep, and much of the counterespionage.

At 02:00 PM 9/12/2019, you wrote:

>‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>On Thursday, September 12, 2019 5:50 PM, 
>coderman <coderman at protonmail.com> wrote:
> > ... In some cases, the device might force 
> every phone in range to drop to a 2G 
> connection. This may still allow 911 calls to 
> take place, but almost any other form of 
> communication will be impossible as long as the Stingray is in use.
>
>
>i haven't seen this brought up before, but 
>Stingray type devices** are also used in 
>extra-judicial "disruption strategies", where a 
>target's communications are denied and interfered with.
>
>See also:
>
>https://www.byline.com/column/69/article/1696
>"""
>Disruption strategies are to be implemented, 
>according to the guidance document, when 
>sufficient evidence is lacking that someone is a 
>threat; when agents do not have the grounds to 
>continue an actual investigation according to 
>internal guidelines; and when there is no way to 
>bring formal criminal charges against an individual.
>...
>According to the FBI's own internal guidelines 
>in Section IV(V), a “Disruption Strategy” 
>may be implemented when the investigation has 
>closed, when the threat is over, and 
>essentially, when there are no more legal, 
>investigatory or constitutional means of continuing the investigation.
>
>Disruption, then, seems to be a last resort used 
>when the FBI's investigations lead to a 
>dead-end. And it is a strategy to be deployed even when there is no threat.
>"""
>
>
>and:
>"""
>Requests, orders, configuration requirements, 
>technical manuals and any other responsive 
>materials regarding "lawful intercept" of 
>cellular communications, specifically LTE, CDMA, 
>or GSM communications, requesting specific 
>service levels during intercept, including "baud 
>rate match" terminology, "channel rate match", 
>"CBR-channel", "Fixed-bandwidth channel", and 
>"Constant rate channel" terms indicating 
>override of default network operator capacity 
>provisioning during content collection. Specific 
>requested rates or channel capacities include 
>"0.5G", "1/2G", "half-G", "1.5G", "GPRS", 
>"1xRTT", or "SMS-Only" service capacities. 
>Records requested under any authority in scope 
>of this request - focus is on technology rather 
>than statutory authorization enabling collection.
>"""
>- 
>https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/degradedowngradedualfade-23083/
>
>
>chickens coming home to roost...
>
>
>best regards,