{"id":94279,"date":"2019-07-30T18:43:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T01:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/cell-site-simulators-imsi-catchers"},"modified":"2019-07-30T18:43:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T01:43:49","slug":"cell-site-simulators-imsi-catchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/cell-site-simulators-imsi-catchers","title":{"rendered":"Cell-Site Simulators\/IMSI Catchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cell-site-simulators-imsi-catchers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NLP.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Cell-site simulators, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers, are devices that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2015\/01\/2014-review-stingrays-go-mainstream\">masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers<\/a>, tricking phones within a certain radius into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/file\/767321\/download\">connecting to the device rather than a tower<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cell-site simulators operate by conducting a general search of all cell phones within the device\u2019s radius, in violation of basic constitutional protections.<\/p>\n<p><b> <\/b><br \/> Law enforcement use cell-site simulators to pinpoint the location of phones with greater accuracy than phone companies. Cell-site simulators can also log IMSI numbers (unique identifying numbers) of all of the mobile devices within a given area. Some cell-site simulators may have advanced features allowing law enforcement to intercept communications or even alter the content of communications.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/criminaldefender\/cell-site-simulators\">Criminal defense attorney?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NLP. Cell-site simulators, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers, are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Cell-site simulators operate by conducting a general search of all cell phones within the device\u2019s radius, in violation of basic constitutional protections. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1493,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}