{"id":32336,"date":"2014-09-02T13:42:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T13:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/seventeen-mysterious-cellphone-towers-have-been\/"},"modified":"2014-09-02T13:42:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T13:42:49","slug":"seventeen-mysterious-cellphone-towers-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/seventeen-mysterious-cellphone-towers-have-been\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Seventeen mysterious cellphone towers have been found in America which look like ordinary towers, and can only be identified by a heavily customized handset built for Android security \u2013 but have a much more malicious purpose, according to Popular Science. The fake \u2018towers\u2019 \u2013 computers which wirelessly attack cellphones via the \u201cbaseband\u201d chips built to allow them to communicate with their networks, can eavesdrop and even install spyware, ESD claims. They are a known technology &#8211; but the surprise is that they are in active use. The towers were found by users of the CryptoPhone 500, one of several ultra-secure handsets that have come to market in the last couple of years, after an executive noticed his handset was \u201cleaking\u201d data regularly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.welivesecurity.com\/2014\/08\/28\/android-security-2\/\">Android security mystery &#8211; \u2018fake\u2019 cellphone towers found in U.S.<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/worsethandetroit.co.uk\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">worsethandetroit<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventeen mysterious cellphone towers have been found in America which look like ordinary towers, and can only be identified by a heavily customized handset built for Android security \u2013 but have a much more malicious purpose, according to Popular Science. The fake \u2018towers\u2019 \u2013 computers which wirelessly attack cellphones via the \u201cbaseband\u201d chips built to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-32336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8py","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}