This is "news" but it strikes me weird.

TL;dr: sometimes super expensive #Stingray gear shows up on eBay. My question: who's the audience for this? $50k-$100k is out of reach for hacker types, or organized crime, who can build their own for much less, and foreign adversaries or domestic cops will buy their own from normal surveillance tech companies, not eBay.

https://san.com/cc/ice-uses-this-device-to-surveil-cell-phones-you-can-buy-one-for-50000

(Added CW because the card for the news story is scary militarized cops)

ICE uses this device to surveil cell phones. You can buy one for $50,000

A surveillance device commonly referred to as a Stingray was listed on eBay for $50,000 before being removed from the platform.

Straight Arrow News

Wow @eff could not have made the #RayHunter install any easier. If you can unzip a file, connect to a network, and run a script, you can flash an Orbic in seconds. I just did. The most difficult part was figuring out where the Orbic kept its admin password. Turned out it was the default Wifi password. (And I would have know that if I had #RTFM )

Great work team!

#IMSI #IMSICatcher #StingRay

Anything can happen in the next half hour #photography #architecture #timecapsule #coatbridge #stingray

little alien baby-stingray and stingray nebula

#stingray
#stingraynebula