No one understands the technology they have access to anymore

[Ryan Carboni]

It's not like assassinations for hire can't be hacked, right?

https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/privacy-and-surveillance/police-hide-use-cell-phone-tracker-courts-because

The power of stingrays, and the lengths to which police will go to
conceal their use, are demonstrated by an ongoing case in Florida,
State v. Thomas. As revealed in a recent opinion of a Florida appeals
court, Tallahassee police used an unnamed device — almost certainly a
stingray — to track a stolen cell phone to a suspect’s apartment. (The
case’s association with stingrays was first pointed out by CNET’s
Declan McCullagh in January). They then knocked on the door, asked
permission to enter and, when the suspect’s girlfriend refused, forced
their way inside, conducted a search, and arrested the suspect in his
home. Police opted not to get warrants authorizing either their use of
the stingray or the apartment search. Incredibly, this was apparently
because they had signed a nondisclosure agreement with the company
that gave them the device. The police seem to have interpreted the
agreement to bar them even from revealing their use of stingrays to
judges, who we usually rely on to provide oversight of police
investigations.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/bureau-prisons-tests-micro-jamming-technology-south-carolina-prison-prevent-contraband-cell

This week, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) conducted a pilot test
of micro-jamming technology at the Broad River Correctional
Institution in Columbia, S.C.  The test – the first collaboration of
this kind in a state corrections facility – was conducted to determine
if micro-jamming could prevent wireless communication by inmates using
contraband cellphones in a housing unit.   This test follows two
earlier tests at a federal corrections facility in Cumberland,
Maryland.

Contraband cellphones present an ongoing safety and correctional
security concern for the public as well as for correctional facilities
across the country.  Contraband cellphones have been used to run
criminal enterprises, distribute child pornography, and facilitate the
commission of violent crimes—all while inmates are incarcerated.  In
South Carolina, officials attributed the deadly April 15, 2018 prison
riot in part to contraband cellphones.  And on March 5, 2010, a South
Carolina inmate ordered a hit on a 15-year corrections veteran from
behind bars.  He was shot six times and severely wounded.