Howard County Police Department: Cell-site Simulator
A Harris Corporation Stingray II cell-site simulator.
Credit: USPTO
| Agency | Howard County Police Department |
| Location | Ellicott, MD |
| Technology | Cell-site Simulator |
| Vendor |
The Howard County Police Department acquired cell-site simulator technology in 2011 and used a cell-site simulator 54 times in 2021.
Links
News article (Vocativ)
News dataset (Kevin Collier)
Government information (Howard County Police)
Other (cnsmaryland.org)
Other (github.com)
More about this technology
Cell-site simulators, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers, are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower.
A Harris Corporation Stingray II cell-site simulator.
Credit: USPTO