State Police Can Suck Data out of Cell Phones in Under Two Minutes

[blessednxs65]

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All this talk of Apple tracking you got me to thinking about something my Grandmother used to tell me, "Remember wherever you go you take Jesus with you so be careful where you go." Sage advice then, sage advice now.

Not to go all pious, because Lord knows I have not always kept to her teaching. However, I have found it to be true, even and especially in the case of technology.

Anyway, I was discussing this article with the Captain responsible for Support Services for our PD and while the author bashed LE, we both agreed that the tool itself would be a nice weapon in our crime fighting arsenal.

Once we complete our CLETS certs we are going to look into acquiring this technology.

 

[Jwrussell]

I have no issue with the use of devices like this WHEN they are used within the framework of the 4th Amendment. Which, IMH, yet uneducated O when it comes to LE, means such devices have no place in patrol cars. It's a forensics tool.

 

[tobii3]

remember that every time you use your GPS app.

:rolling:

 

[smokinghole]

Can they gather the information wireless or do they need to plug into the phone? If it's wireless, which it doesn't appear to be, that would be really freaky.

 

[NCost]

So the next app we'll be seeing is an encryption/lock app that prevents these units from collecting data.

Get pulled over, pull out your phone to enable the app (requires a password to shut it off) and when the LEO wants your phone tell them no. If they still take it and try to read it...oops it's encrypted and locked. LEO "disable the app"...Me: NO, take me in for being a law abiding citizen, I like court.

My opinion, they're violating our right to privacy. If they have nothing on you, they have no right to private data w/o a warrant. They can FOff.

 

[Jwrussell]

My opinion, they're violating our right to privacy. If they have nothing on you, they have no right to private data w/o a warrant. They can FOff.

Assuming, as the article suggests, there are LEOs out there simply grabbing phones from people they pull over and plugging them into these things. I have to say, that sounds a bit unlikely to me. If it is happening, it's not the phone or this piece of equipment that is the problem, it's the officers and the department.

 

[BagfullofPings]

So the next app we'll be seeing is an encryption/lock app that prevents these units from collecting data.

Get pulled over, pull out your phone to enable the app (requires a password to shut it off) and when the LEO wants your phone tell them no. If they still take it and try to read it...oops it's encrypted and locked. LEO "disable the app"...Me: NO, take me in for being a law abiding citizen, I like court.

My opinion, they're violating our right to privacy. If they have nothing on you, they have no right to private data w/o a warrant. They can FOff.

:applause::applause::applause::applause::applause:

 

[tobii3]

So the next app we'll be seeing is an encryption/lock app that prevents these units from collecting data.

You're joking, right?

Guess what? NONE of your signal is encrypted. NONE.

You are carrying a TRANSCEIVER - meaning it transmits and receives whenever it is ON.

My opinion, they're violating our right to privacy. If they have nothing on you, they have no right to private data w/o a warrant. They can FOff.

Really? So posting your location on Facebook, posting thru Twitter, posting to BOTL ""posted using Tapatalk from my blackberry"....This is PRIVATE data? Then WHY would you be posting it on a PUBLIC forum?

Amazing how that works, isn't it?

 

[dpricenator]

Best feeling ever....

"hello sir can I search your car?"

"No"

""what are you hiding"

"Nothing, you asked and I answered, please write my ticket and we'll both be on our way"


No ticket and a surprised officer. Only a tail light out.


I have come to respect our LE officers in the recent past, but i'm not going to let them go thru my stuff with out a warrant.

 

[JNT]

where do you guys live that the police ask to search your vehicle, or see your cellphone when they stop you for a traffic violation?

 

[hdroadglide]

believe me, there are some suspicious looking people that hang out here.....

 

[dpricenator]

where do you guys live that the police ask to search your vehicle, or see your cellphone when they stop you for a traffic violation?

South orange county in Socal. I'm not sure I have ever not been asked that question. But of course as Bob said, I look like I might be up to no good. In the past it was usually true, so I can understand it. Als0 though I do not drive a Mercedes or BMW so they don't like me around here. LOL when I had my Jag, I never got messed with.