Govt Stingrays: Raping Your Wallet While We Rape Your Privacy

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http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/19/14007830/house-committee-congress-stingray-phone-surveillance
https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/THE-FINAL-bipartisan-cell-site-simulator-report.pdf

The devices, used by local and federal law enforcement agencies around
the country, have been controversial, both for their power to track
mobile devices and the secrecy often accompanying their use. As the
report notes, the devices are still often used by local law
enforcement agencies without warrants, instead relying on various
lower standards of evidence. The committee's investigation, which last
year prompted the Justice Department and Department of Homeland
Security to change their policies on when to require a warrant before
using the devices, found that the Justice Department uses 310 of the
devices and spent $71 million on them between fiscal years 2010 and
2014. Homeland Security has 124 devices and spent $24 million in the
same period. [...] The committee recommends that agencies become more
"candid" about the devices, and urges states to pass legislation that
would "require, with limited exceptions, issuance of a probable cause
based warrant prior to law enforcement's use of these devices."

That's on average $194,000 to $230,000 *each*.
Open source HW and SW to do the same thing is well under $1000 each.
It's time you arrest and charge these rapists with count 1) wallet rape,
count 2) privacy rape, count 3) conspiracy to abuse, convict them,
and put them in jail.