It was the responsibility of the FCC to have never allowed these devices to manufactured, but as typical they fell for the police exemption excuse. Now they'll be abused more and more.
The FCC could have easily had their police exemption without also providing access to your average HAM, any reasonably competent hobbyist, and the security services of every other nation on the planet.
Security on cellular networks is even more of a joke than on consumer-grade wifi... it's basically a pinky promise not to look at stuff you're not supposed to look at. No fucking wonder there's a mountain of stingray clones in DC. Are they planning to fix this on 5g networks? Because there's no reason to be so concerned over backdoors in Chinese cellular modems as long as we're happily letting them in through the front door.
So in practice it would look like briefly, usually imperceptibly, losing cell service.
Also:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/stingray-security-flaw-cell-ne...
However, it is the responsibility of the FCC to not throw up their hands and say "Duh, we don't know how to find 'em." They have one job -- regulating the use of the RF spectrum -- and that's it.
Of course the funny part is, it’s designed so pirates can only send HDMI output to approved screens (=not recording devices), but for backwards comparibility, they has to allow HDMI-to-SVGA adapter with decoding, so the breach is wide open. But you get the intent: HDMI was supposed to bea fully-encrypted standard with only preapproved devices.
Interesting. Where can I read more about this intent, and how it was compromised?
The standard is called HDCP
The point is that by going around the drm, even if it’s by doing something trivial, you are committing a crime.