How a Jailbird Con Artist Uncovered a Secret FBI Surveillance Tool

A convict lawyer , sit in jail , obsessed with a wacky theory that the governance tracked him by sending cloak-and-dagger rays into his house … ends up discovering a secret government cell phone trailing program . sound like outre noir , correct ? But it ’s straight .

It fall out to Daniel Rigmaiden , who found out that the government had usedStingrays — covert surveillance devices that act like a phoney mobile phone phone towboat — to catch him run a fake tax return scheme . He ’s the guy who land Stingrays to spark . Rigmaiden dig up through government document and discovered that law enforcement all over the rural area were using these devices , and he did it from his jail cell . Then , he wrote a meticulously explore memorandum about the secret program that lean off the American Civil Liberties Union .

WNYC talked to Rigmaidenabout how he figured it out . How he doggedly pursued the idea that the government must ’ve tracked him in secret , even at the cost of recede his lawyers . He ended up defend himself in court .

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The WNYC podcast touches on how the just how underground Stingrays were at the pre - Snowden time — so secret that the FBImade police force enforcement dismiss deplorable casesrather than risk of exposure exposing its manipulation of the secret snoop engineering science .

It also reveals what happened to Rigmaiden after he uncovered the widespread usage of Stingrays — as part of his tax imposter prison term , he was ordered to perform community military service . He scent up at the ACLU , teaching them what he ’d learned about the Stingray technology .

[ WNYC ]

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