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Do y'all remember the (likely fake, but widely reported) news about Israeli stingrays in DC a few months back, in September of this year? Whatever happened to that story? It was memory holed very quickly, which makes me suspicious that those weren't actually Israeli stingrays.

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I've read news reports that half the "cell towers" in DC are suspicious.

So it's not about one particular organization or foreign government doing shady stuff.

So "likely fake" => "almost certainly true." FTFY.

Sounds implausible to me. In their useful (active) mode these things emit. The FCC (not to mention the other TLAs) can easily track this shit down and shut it down. Except of course if those are NSA/FBI/CIA stingrays.

Make them mobile, use them for short, unpredictable periods.

Or site them in embassies, where the FCC can impotently yell through the locked gate.

>Or site them in embassies, where the FCC can impotently yell through the locked gate.

Two can play at that game. The FCC can retaliate by setting up jammers with directional antennas pointing towards the embassy.

It wasn't memory-holed: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/israel-white-house...

That article is a few months old.

Yes, that's the September story I was talking about. It was memory-holed within days after it hit the news sites.

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