Stingray Phone Surveillance
This is a product for sale to surveil mobiles. They speak of the police in this website but anyone can access this technology to breach privacy. Privacy is in the public interest.
Here’s How Much a StingRay Cell Phone Surveillance Tool Costs
It’s a rare look into the pricing and packaging of the cellphone surveillance tech.
Dec 9 2016, 3:00am

Rochester Police Department in New York responded to our Cell Site Simulator Census with a rare look into the pricing and packaging of the cellphone surveillance tech: a completely unredacted quote list of Harris Corporation products.
Police departments and federal agencies alike are remarkably secretive about cell site simulator details—important information like pricing, components that are sold with the devices, how the devices are actually operated, has been withheld from the public due to law enforcement fears that this investigative tool will be compromised.
The KingFish package, Harris Corporations smaller, mobile version of the StingRay, sells for $157,000.


Technical aspects of cell site simulators are not easy to come by, so it is very interesting that in the fine print at the bottom one can see some of the specifications required to run these devices. The StingRay and Kingfish can be run out of a car’s cigarette lighter, while the StingRay II requires a 2000W power inverter. That is hungrier for power than almost any household appliance, save a dryer or oven.

A version of this story was originally published on MuckRock.