Re: When your cellphone has coverage...
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 7:44 pm
George,
Apologies for the delayed reply. This is extremely interesting, and I might add controversial, technology. From what I understand, Triggerfish and StingRay are very similar devices. In essence, they have the ability to mimic a cell tower and perform various functions from "pinging" a cell phone's location in order to triangulate it to collecting various numbers associated with it, such as serial numbers and (I believe) numbers of other phones it interacts with. There are other devices which operate much the same way (and I suspect vary only in degrees of speciality in certain key functions) such as StingRay II, AmberJack, KingFish and LoggerHead. They are all manufactured by an entity called Harris Corp, based in Florida. Apparently little public information is available on this stuff. DOJ and the military are understandably playing this pretty close to the chest.
There's a couple good articles on the WSJ site and the usual smattering around the Googleverse.
Hope this helps.
Apologies for the delayed reply. This is extremely interesting, and I might add controversial, technology. From what I understand, Triggerfish and StingRay are very similar devices. In essence, they have the ability to mimic a cell tower and perform various functions from "pinging" a cell phone's location in order to triangulate it to collecting various numbers associated with it, such as serial numbers and (I believe) numbers of other phones it interacts with. There are other devices which operate much the same way (and I suspect vary only in degrees of speciality in certain key functions) such as StingRay II, AmberJack, KingFish and LoggerHead. They are all manufactured by an entity called Harris Corp, based in Florida. Apparently little public information is available on this stuff. DOJ and the military are understandably playing this pretty close to the chest.
There's a couple good articles on the WSJ site and the usual smattering around the Googleverse.
Hope this helps.