Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Fake Cell Phone Towers are Everywhere.



 

Is that cell phone tower near your house real of fake?

Tech Company finds over a dozen mysterious fake cell towers in DC area.

READ STORY HERE:  http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/26610194/tech-company-finds-mysterious-fake-cell-towers-in-dc-area
 

Ok now this is fisher than a sardine smoothie.   These things are all over the country.   Without special expensive equipment, you can’t tell if a cell tower is fake or real, and some of them are disguised so they don’t even look like a cell tower. 

So, who owns (or rents) the property they are on?  There is no way the government could not know who is behind this.   These things have been in the news for some time now.  Here is just a sample of past news reports.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2600348/mobile-security/are-your-calls-being-intercepted-17-fake-cell-towers-discovered-in-one-month.html

http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/05/fake-cellphone-towers/

http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/09/behind-fake-interceptor-cell-phone-towers-found-u-s/

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/09/04/rumor-check-those-fake-cellphone-towers-youre-hearing-about-arent-necessarily-towers-at-all/

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/09/fake_cell_phone.html

 

Some of them may even look like trees…No kidding.  Check this link.

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/faketree.htm

 

I bet if someone started tearing one of these towers down you would find out real quick who was using it.  My guess is the government…

 

NEW UPDATE
I was just thinking about this, and it occurred to me that there are multiple antennae on most towers; it would be very easy to hide ownership of a single antenna.   Typically, a company will lease a site and build the tower.  The owner of the tower (not the land) then leases space on the tower.  A cell tower will have dozens of antennae (dozens of leases).

Who would know that Communications for company X is really a front for China?   Also, there are thousands of antennae on farm silos, in church steeples, water towers, flag poles, and so forth.

 

 

 








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