Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your phone

Re:Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your... by throwaway_drt2 on Monday August 03, 2020 @01:19PM (#24040557)

I used to work for DRT, they make the "dirtbox" mentioned in the article. I would really encourage journalists to dig more into this company and their products.

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Re:Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your... by ideals on Monday August 03, 2020 @03:53PM (#24042540)

You could contact https://twitter.com/KenKlippenstein via Signal with any information you didn't see in the article which should be. He seems to be a journalist interested in related fields.

No one is going to know unless the people who worked there reach out.

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Re:Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your... by WarOnPrivacy on Monday August 03, 2020 @01:52PM (#24040999)

> I would really encourage journalists to dig more into this company and their products.

I guess journalists' disinterest in invasive surveillance is because reporting on it is harder, than reprinting the same 7 headlines as every other news org.

It's been a bit better since Edward Snowden dragged news orgs away from authoritarian-friendly journalism and into the surveillance age. However, journalists still seem to do about the bare minimum, while their reporting gives LEO/Gov endless benefit of the doubt.

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Re:Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your... by thimkerbell on Monday August 03, 2020 @08:48PM (#24045310)

Can these do MITM attacks that inject content into what you are reading?

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Re:Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your... by ComputerGuru on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @02:07AM (#24047137)

Not when accessing https resources but the safe answer is yes otherwise. Unless your phone is infected, of course. Baseband isn't as confined as you think.

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Re:Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your... by thimkerbell on Monday August 03, 2020 @10:52PM (#24046055)

Or could they change the CSS so as to, say, have Amazon's website exhibit underhanded "dark pattern" behavior?

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