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Old 09-06-2014, 01:35 AM
 
Location: Michigan
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Seventeen fake cellphone towers were discovered across the U.S. last week, according to a report in Popular Science.

Rather than offering you cellphone service, the towers appear to be connecting to nearby phones, bypassing their encryption, and either tapping calls or reading texts.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/myster...162645809.html
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Old 09-06-2014, 03:13 AM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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Old news - we already have a thread about it here:
//www.city-data.com/forum/cell-...ne-towers.html
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Old 09-06-2014, 03:32 AM
 
Location: Michigan
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Old news - we already have a thread about it here:
//www.city-data.com/forum/cell-...ne-towers.html
You can delete this thread if you want. Thanks.
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