Fake cell towers intercepting your signal?

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Popular Science Article - I can't really say I'm surprised that the interceptors are out there, but I am a bit surprised I haven't seen it in the news. It's a bit long, but a good read.

http://www.popsci.com/article/techn...calls?src=related&con=outbrain&obref=obinsite

So when Goldsmith and his team drove by the government facility in July, he also took a standard Samsung Galaxy S4 and an iPhone to serve as a control group for his own device.

”As we drove by, the iPhone showed no difference whatsoever. The Samsung Galaxy S4, the call went from 4G to 3G and back to 4G. The CryptoPhone lit up like a Christmas tree.”

Though the standard Apple and Android phones showed nothing wrong, the baseband firewall on the Cryptophone set off alerts showing that the phone’s encryption had been turned off, and that the cell tower had no name – a telltale sign of a rogue base station. Standard towers, run by say, Verizon or T-Mobile, will have a name, whereas interceptors often do not.