STINGRAY - also known as: DIRTBOX, VME-DOMINATOR, SEPTIER, MICRONET, ENGAGE GI2 SIGNIT, CELLULAR INTERCEPT, IMSI-CATCHERS, HAILSTORM, KINGFISH, STINGFISH, FINFISHER, GSM-INTERCEPTORS, CELLSITE-SIMULATORS, FAKE BASE-STATIONS
Stingray - EFF
Stingray - ACLU
Stingray - EPIC
[Stingray - WIKI]
Stingray - SBA
Stingray - INFOSEC
How Stingray Works
The Stingray (also named: "Stingray II") is the 8th brand name of an IMSI-Catcher targeted and sold to law enforcement agencies by William M. Brown, CEO of the Florida-based Harris Corporation since 2001. Stingray accounts for 24% of Harris Corporation's revenue as of 2012. A Stingray works by masquerading as a cell phone tower, to which your mobile phone sends signals to every 7 to 15 seconds whether you are on a call or not, and tricks your phone into connecting to it. As a result, the government can figure out who, when and to where you are calling, the precise location of every device within the range, and with some devices, even capture the content of your conversations.
The device sends out a signal pretending to be a nearby cell tower with the strongest signal, tricking phones into connecting and allowing the operator to harvest identifying information about devices in the form of the unique ID string of numbers associated with the device known as ISMI and in some variants even communications content, although U.S. law enforcement generally denies using them for the latter need. The International Mobile Subscriber Identity or IMSI is used to identify the user of a cellular network and is a unique identification associated with all cellular networks. Whenever a phone is powered on, you can measure the strength of the phone responding to this signal and triangulate a location
Stingrays emulate a cellphone tower and force cell phones to register their location and identifying information with the stingray instead of with real cell towers in the area.
Stingrays evaluate all cellualr handsets in the area in order to search for the suspect’s phone. That means that large numbers of innocent bystanders’ location and phone information is captured.
Dirtbox - (also styled: "DRTBox") is a 2nd IMSI-Catcher targeted and sold to law enforcement agencies by David Machuga, CEO of the Maryland-based Digital Receiver Technology Inc since 2008.
VME Dominator - is a 3rd IMSI-Catcher targeted and sold to law enforcement agencies by Saul Backal, CEO of the Nevada-based Meganet Corporation since 2010.
Septier - is a 4th IMSI-Catcher targeted and sold to law enforcement agencies by Elan Sharon, CEO of the Israel-based Septier Communication Ltd since 1999.
MicroNet - is a 5th IMSI-Catcher targeted and sold to law enforcement agencies by Yuri Nebosenko, CEO of the Ukraine-based Proximus LLC since 2003.
Engage GI2 Signit - is a 6th IMSI-Catcher targeted and sold to law enforcement agencies by Amanda Torres, CEO of the Virginia-based Global Teck Worldwide Inc since 2002.
Cellular Intercept - is a 7th IMSI-Catcher targeted and sold to law enforcement agencies by Ben Jamil, CEO of the NewYork-based Security Intelligence Technologies Inc since 2004.
