Texas spent $4.5M in Spy SUVs that scan phones in 3 minutes

Texas spent $4.5M in Spy SUVs that scan phones in 3 minutes(letsaddresstexas.substack.com)

13 points by Muhammad523 3 hours ago | 4 comments

balozi 2 hours ago |

What are they scanning? Are they just trying to figure out what devices are in range?

lazylester 40 minutes ago | |

phone calls and texts. It's not just metadata. You can switch to WhatsApp and Signal, but your whole Rolodex (remember them?) needs to switch too.

VirusNewbie 2 hours ago |

Is that effective surveillance? I know SMS is plain text, but anything interesting is probably on iMessage, or RCS, or SSL web, no?

EdwardDiego 2 hours ago | |

It's warrantless location tracking that they value more than direct interception.

cyanydeez 2 hours ago | | |

right, instead of getting the "Person of Interest" AI, we're getting the locally deployed to the worst type of people for whatever they deem "valid" until someone stops them.