Comment Re:Whitelisting real mobile carrier towers (Score 1) 140
How smart will the next modded smartphone have to be to detect expected local network changes?
Some ability to map normal for the area and then look for changes? The interesting part is a permanent site would be given settings that would be seen as a new normal.
Looks like a new smaller cell site with urban features, connects like a cell site, passes all types of data to and from a phone like all other normal cell sites.
The problem the US legal systems seems to have is that of telco trust. Why not just use the telco sites with local telco experts?
What has the US legal systems found out over the years about national, multinational or foreign telco databases and tracking cell numbers and users that it has to go with its own special hardware?
The need to keep IMSI-catcher like systems away from courts, cleared lawyers and trusted domestic telcos systems is telling.