In 2013, Daniel Rigmaiden - facing life in prison for 35 counts each of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft - was offered a surprise deal by federal prosecutors.

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By preserving and exploiting - rather than reporting and repairing - the defects in cellular networks, the US government paved the way for criminal enterprises that fielded their OWN Stingrays, to track and infect their victims& #39; phones.

https://blog.checkpoint.com/2017/03/21/swearing-trojan-continues-rage-even-authors-arrest/

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The US officials who deliberately weakened the US& #39;s mobile security insists it& #39;s a small price to pay for foiling major crimes. A closer look reveals that the major uses for Stingrays were penny-ante stuff, like tracking down an undocumented waiter.

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/19/feds-used-secretive-phone-tracking-tool-to-hunt-down-undocumented-immigrant/

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But (according to @dmehro and @dellcam) US cops have a new arms-dealer, the Montreal-based Octasic, whose Nyxcell V800/F800 TAU cellular surveillance devices are marketed in the USA by Tactical Support Equipment of North Carolina.

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