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

[eviljoel]

Can you expand on this? I don't understand how this is possible?

- eviljoel

On 03/19/2015 11:11 PM, Freddy Martinez wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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