Did Feds' Use of Fake Cell Tower Constitute a Search?

Posted by timothy on Saturday November 5, 2011 @04:30AM from the law-review-editors-salivate dept.

hessian writes with this story in Wired: "Federal authorities used a fake Verizon cellphone tower to zero in on a suspect's wireless card, and say they were perfectly within their rights to do so, even without a warrant. But the feds don't seem to want that legal logic challenged in court by the alleged identity thief they nabbed using the spoofing device, known generically as a stingray. So the government is telling a court for the first time that spoofing a legitimate wireless tower in order to conduct surveillance could be considered a search under the Fourth Amendment in this particular case, and that its use was legal, thanks to a court order and warrant that investigators used to get similar location data from Verizon's own towers."

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Speaking of Fake and Cell Phones by AlienIntelligence · 2011-11-05 04:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I wrote a submission:
http://slashdot.org/~AlienIntelligence/submissions
About Siri being down. Wonder if it will get published to the front page.
I'm kinda "surprised" a submission hasn't made it to the front page yet,
considering the outages started on Wednesday.
Odd that.
-AI

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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion
Re:Criminals were captured by LordLimecat · 2011-11-05 05:43 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Rule 1 of the internet:
Dont Feed The Trolls.