[Crypto-chi] All the more reason to use crypto on our smartphones

[Freddy Martinez]

Redphone / signal / FDE on your cellphone won't protect you from IMSI
catchers run by the CIA.

Threat model accordingly.

FM
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:27 PM joe fuentes <joseph.fuentes at live.com>
wrote:

> Hi Everyone
>
> Well this time it's the CIA who has been helping the US Federal Marhalls
>  build phone scanning equipment for use here in these United States. As you
> know the CIA would be in contravention of the law if it operated directly
> on US soil . And if that wasn't enough based on information from Snowden's
> leaks there's a DOJ investigation as to whether NSA and DEA teamed up in
> some sort of diabolical plans most notorious.  The WSJ stated that the tech
> used to scan phones were fake cell towers to vacuum up vast amounts of data
> both from criminals and people like you and me.
>
> Whilst nowadays these revelations aren't so surprising - we've almost come
> to expect them - it does bring home one point to us as a crypto group. * Use
> crypto even on your phone! *  There are tools for that.
>
> Geez, at this rate next thing you'll know is we'll have to crypto even
> when we go to the loo.
>
> Take a looksie here. FYI
>
> Joe
>
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/article/cia-secretly-built-phone-scanning-tech-for-domestic-spy-operations/
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