On 9/1/14, Alfie John <alfiej@fastmail.fm> wrote:
... "The fake ‘towers’ – computers which wirelessly attack cellphones via the “baseband” chips built to allow them to communicate with their networks, can eavesdrop and even install spyware,...
"What we find suspicious is that a lot of these interceptors are right on top of U.S. military bases."
this is a classified "data loss prevention" mechanism, if you will. rather than deny cell use on sensitive locations (some locales demand no digital electronics) a happy middle ground of surreptitious deep inspection on demand is applied. what was once foreign battlefield only, is now plentiful lawful access, locally. don't be fooled; no less malicious in re-purpose. these are war weapons aimed at all of us...