On Sun, 25 Sep 2011, Eugen Leitl wrote:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904194604576583112723197574.ht...
'Stingray' Phone Tracker Fuels Constitutional Clash
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A Harris StingRay II, one of several devices dubbed 'stingrays.'
Stingrays are designed to locate a mobile phone even when it's not being used to make a call. The Federal Bureau of Investigation considers the devices to be so critical that it has a policy of deleting the data gathered in their use, mainly to keep suspects in the dark about their capabilities, an FBI official told The Wall Street Journal in response to inquiries.
A Harris Corp. "Sole Source Vendor Letter", along with sales slicks for the entire Stingray products family can be found at: http://egov.ci.miami.fl.us/Legistarweb/Attachments/48003.pdf $51,000 for the entire system (Harris will make a sole-sourced killing on this :-/). //Alif -- I hate Missouri. Land of the free, home of the perjuriously deranged.