The ultra-secure CryptoPhone 500 came on the market not that long ago courtesy of ESD America and one of its features is an ability to find things that are not part of the standard cellphone network.
And one of the things it found was 17 fake cellphone towers spread around the country, according to Popular Science.
EDS CEO Les Goldsmith described these towers as “interceptors” which look just like regular cellphone tower but are not part of the official communication network. He said they allow eavesdropping on calls and text along with pushing spyware to the device.
He said a lot of them were close to military bases. He expressed a concern that perhaps they were not placed by our government but a foreign one such as China something that would be frankly hard to believe possible but for the JV squad now in running our nation’s security.
Note that the 17 were the only ones found.
A map showing the locations of the fake cellphone towers found by the CryptoPhone 500 as of August.
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