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Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon's producer

125 points • by rndsignals • today at 5:08 PM • 78 comments • view on HN

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mlmonkey • today at 7:31 PM

What will Stingrays do if a mobile device uses Starlink? There's no way the Feds are going to lose this ability to deploy Stingrays once Starlink Mobile comes around.

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Quitschquat • today at 5:51 PM

Curious if there are counter measures for devices like Stingrays or IMSI catchers

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aorth • today at 7:16 PM

The subtitle doesn't make sense:

> Investigators also sought permission to use an invasive surveillance tool called a cell-site simulators against journalist Georgia Fort and a Minnesota state Senate candidate.

"a cell-site simulators"?

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downrightmike • today at 5:24 PM

The affidavits supporting the applications to track Richardson claimed video showed Fort, Lemon, Richardson, and others “chanting with agitators.” Prosecutors have since conceded that Lemon and Fort did not chant. According to her lawyers, the government acknowledged that the false claim appeared in at least 15 warrant affidavits.

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randycupertino • today at 6:29 PM

Imagine if they went after the child predators listed in the Epstein files with the same amount of force they are going after journalists and critics of ICE.

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advisedwang • today at 6:10 PM

> charged with conspiring to violate worshippers’ civil rights and interfering with religious worship at ... its pastors, David Easterwood, also led ICE’s St. Paul field office

Exciting potential here for government officials to use civil rights laws to attack their enemies

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vl • today at 6:43 PM

Should we introduce change to add [paywall] or something to paywalled links?

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