“approval for emergency purchase necessary to protect the safety and welfare of state personnel and property. Delaying the procurement process could result in unacceptable safety risks to personnel and compromise operational readiness.”
Everything is an emergency with fascists. Don’t look at it, just rubber stamp it. No need to discuss what the funds are for, we promise it’s important.
Everything is an emergency because it allows them to abuse laws and regulations that are supposed to be reserved for actual emergencies.
secretly tracks people by intercepting the connection between your phone and the nearest cell tower.
Wouldn’t TLS make this useless? What data can they actually get from a man in the middle attack like this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker
Metadata can be used to get warrants for wiretaps or messaging records.
They can use signal strengths to triangulate locations.
Basically everything other than the actual conversation itself for modern protocols. But it can force devices to use older, compromised, protocols as well.
