A new Stingray

I don't mean a Corvette Stingray, which was the first car I bought. While the car is still being built, another form of Stingray simulates a cell tower and has become quite popular with government agencies for surveillance of cell phones. The Stingray, which is about the size of a briefcase, can strip metadata and sometimes content from your cell phone. What really excises people like the ACLU is that the agencies do not need a typical court order to use a Stingray.They require only a low-level court order called a PEN register, also known as a “trap and trace”.