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

38 points by Muhammad523

by Dig1t

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This is an Israeli company and all the data is almost certainly being sent back to Israel.
Texas has a specific law against boycotting Israeli products as well.
https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/anti-israel-policies-are-ant...
The government of Texas has a disturbing obsession with Israel that doesn’t really make sense.

by fco356pal

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by balozi

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

by bzmrgonz

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by VirusNewbie

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