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From: Paul H. Christiansen11/17/2014 11:10:56 AM
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Report: Feds Spying on U.S. Cell Phones Via Planes

The sky's the limit for U.S. spying tactics, according to a new report, which says the Justice Department is collecting data about U.S. citizens' cell phones via airplanes.

The U.S. Marshals Service allegedly operates a number of Cessna aircraft equipped with machines that mimic cell phone towers, in whatThe Wall Street Journal called "a high-tech hunt for criminal suspects."

But those two-foot-square gadgets, known to law enforcement officials as "dirtboxes," also scoop up data from tens of thousands of unsuspecting mobile users, the paper's unnamed sources said.

While there is no word on the volume or frequency of the flights, the Journal'stipsters suggested the Cessnas fly regularly from at least five metropolitan-area airports. Their so-called "dirtboxes"—named after its initials DRT, for Digital Receiver Technology, now a subsidiary of Boeing—trick cell phones into reporting unique registration information.

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Report: Feds Spying on U.S. Cell Phones Via Planes
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