Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your phone

Re:Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your... by bob1029 on Monday August 03, 2020 @12:39PM (#24039949)

I don't think OP is ignoring any points. It is a statement of fact that we've been carrying around what ultimately amount to high power RFID surveillance devices in our pockets for about 20-30 years now (en masse). There are also many on this board at this very moment who can remember life before any of this technology or concern was a thing.

In 1990, if you walked to the store without telling anyone where you were going, you were basically a ghost as far as anyone else was concerned. In 2020, even if you leave all of your digital electronics at home, you will probably be detected by someone else's electronics.

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Re:Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your... by rrose on Monday August 03, 2020 @01:38PM (#24040819)

OP is sort of shrugging off the information in this article by saying that it should be common sense that by carrying a phone you are trackable. I don't really disagree with that. But a major point of the article is that not only are you trackable, but you can be actively surveilled or even have your text messages spoofed, which is not common knowledge and isn't really encapsulated by the "radio in your pocket" analogy

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