A Vignette on Phone Data Targeting from 6 Jan, by NC Scout
Back when I recorded the Radio Contra Episodes on building clandestine communications devices and why you should avoid cell phones like the plague if you’re concerned with doing things outside the purview of state sanction, I received a mountain of feedback from know-betters who obviously have more experience on the F3EA end of targeting than I. Nah, no way, doing what I described was inconvenient, impractical and couldn’t be comprehended, so therefore its obviously wrong. Being facetious here, but then again, I didn’t get to where I got by being an idiot.
As now being exposed, 6 JAN in DC was a giant intelligence sweep, both knowingly and unknowingly. People are angry, very angry, both then and now and deservedly so. The world seems to be spinning out of control because indeed it is. But ‘protests’ are a fruitless endeavor and designed to entrap the people conducting them. The people encouraging you to attend them versus more meaningful endeavors are every bit as complicit, especially the ones encouraging you to hang out on honeypot social media sites. And before anyone says ‘but the left does it’ I’ll remind you – they’re allowed to exist through a complicit bureaucracy that you don’t have. They’re also on average two decades younger and have much less to lose. There is a right way and a wrong way to fight; what’s detailed below is, at least in my estimation, spot on in terms of how targeted individuals were actively tracked based on comparing knowns and unknowns through phone data alone. You may not like it, but the facts care not for your feelings.
The Wire: Trump Special Thread 1/
Attorney General Garland yesterday mentioned ‘new’ forensic methods to catch Jan 6 terrorist insurrectionists that were not commonly used prior to 2003. One is cellphone tower data. I mentioned it already on Jan 10. Let me tell this via a story pic.twitter.com/BTZJqZtByD
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
he Wire: Trump Special Thread 2/
Yes this is my core competence, I’ve written 12 bestselling books to the telecoms, tech & media industries including the fastest-selling telecoms book of all time. I’ve lectured on these topics on all 6 inhabited continents, in over 60 countries pic.twitter.com/07CNVSeUjc
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special Thread 3/
I have no intention to give a ‘how to commit a perfect crime’ guide-book on finer details of my industry. I will keep this broad, but everything in this Thread is 100% true. FBI went into FAR more detail than this fictional ‘episode of The Wire’
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 4/
The Wire: Trump Insurrection Special 2021
Episode starts at end of Jan 6th. FBI has caught a man dressed in Oath Keeper outfit, at Capitol. He is unarmed, claims to be alone, was ‘a tourist’ gives his proper ID, has no cellphone. FBI interview him. pic.twitter.com/4LANHbYFGU
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 5/
When FBI ask him where is his phone, he says he forgot it at his car
They ask, where is his car. He says he parked it at Dulles airport long term parking
FBI ask him if they can search his car, he says no, you need a search warrant. They hold him pic.twitter.com/fGGijGROIt
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 6/
Now let’s find out if this guy acted in a militant cell with Oath Keepers or he wandered into Capitol building all alone. Our forensic team turns to cellular tower data. So every phone that was even briefly turned on during Jan 6th is logged pic.twitter.com/Ao44g7wPip
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 7/
By every phone, I mean every cellphone, whether smart or dumb. It does not have to have GPS functionality or it won’t help if you have the tracking feature turned off. If someone could call you or text you, the network knew your phone was there pic.twitter.com/klKrQ6OuAP
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 8/
My guess on scale, is that there are about 34,000 phones that were on, during the riot, at or near the Capitol building
There is a process called triangulation, by which the network knows roughly where you are, accuracy of about one city block pic.twitter.com/3FaaPg9bzD
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 9/
Through triangulation, we can eliminate all who attended the Maga rally but did not enter the Capitol building. That leaves us with about 11,000 phones.
Those who work in the Capitol used their phones on days before and after Jan 6. Eliminate those pic.twitter.com/wriutIF2DV
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 10/
Nearly anyone working in the Capitol will have 2 phones (one work, one private). Eliminate those. 4,000 x 2 = 8,000. Have 3,000 phones left
Then we have legitimate visitors with permission to be in Capitol that day. Remove those who arrived before pic.twitter.com/BV5Jx4jSOp
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 11/
When we remove all visitors to Capitol who arrived before Capitol was breached, another 1,000 phones, we have 2,000 phones left
Now remove the phones of the cops. say 500 were phones registered with DC & Maryland police officers. We have 1,500 left pic.twitter.com/VDfqzGndsE
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 12/
These 1,500 phones were carried by rioters who entered the Capitol. MOST of those people were NOT organized militants of Oath Keepers, Proud Boys etc. Say 800 were maga supporters who joined to storm the Capitol and 300 were ORGANIZED militants pic.twitter.com/nP8XV0ZnHu
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 12/
These 1,500 phones were carried by rioters who entered the Capitol. MOST of those people were NOT organized militants of Oath Keepers, Proud Boys etc. Say 800 were maga supporters who joined to storm the Capitol and 300 were ORGANIZED militants pic.twitter.com/nP8XV0ZnHu
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 13/
Now we go DEEPER into telecoms traffic forensics. The 800 ‘regular’ maganutters on average carry 1.5 phones (800 x 1.5 = 1,200 phones)
The organized militants did NOT bring their own phones. They were issued ‘Burner phones’ (like mafia drug dealers) pic.twitter.com/jqrQgWxmVJ
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 14/
A regular maganutter would use his or her normal phone in a normal way. They made regular calls/texts every day, past weeks, on that phone. A ‘normal’ person calls during Trump speech AND sends pictures from inside the Capitol, at Nancy Pelosi’s desk pic.twitter.com/ludIcrwERK
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 15/
The Burner Phone traffic is TOTALLY different. It was NEVER used prior to Jan 6. Any calls or messages are short. The Burner is only used for a few hours, then phone disappears forever. We can see from pattern, which are Burners, which normal phones
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 16/
When we eliminate the ‘normal’ traffic phones (1,200) we identify and catch 800 ‘regular’ maga rioters who trespassed, vandalized, pilfered in Capitol
That leaves us 300 Burner phones, belonging to the MILITANTS like Proud Boys, Oath Keepers etc pic.twitter.com/1DDe8taKxO
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 17/
Now let’s isolate the groups. A militant cell of Proud Boys will not in any way interact during Jan 6th on their just-issued Burner phones with anyone among Oath Keepers or Boogaloo Boys or Three Percenters etc. These are ‘use once’ phones that day pic.twitter.com/jNs4VLoZW3
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 18/
Typically the one cell of say Oath Keepers of 7 men, will not contact ANYONE outside those 7, with that set of Burner phones that day. Nobody on the outside, not their wife, not their best friend
They will ALSO not contact OTHER Oath Keeper groups pic.twitter.com/SzuC9vS9qr
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 19/
‘Military mission’ type of communications is VERY specific pattern. One leader, others follow. The ‘orders’ come from the leader to the team. Usually the team do NOT respond. very often it is a single word text message (code word, or code number) pic.twitter.com/A48Scv3GzL
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 20/
So? Take first phone that only received calls or messages but did not call or send. Look who sent the message to this phone, that is team leader of this militant cell. Now look at the leader’s phone traffic: you find total militant cell, all members
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 21/
Proceed through all 300 remaining phone numbers, you have identified EVERY group that could be between say 5 and 11 terrorists per militant cell. And you have identified phone of EACH leader of each cell. pic.twitter.com/1phli6vmqr
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 22/
Then you connect the dots. Start with captured phones that were with a given militant. Here is a Boogaloo Boy. This is his phone number. Where is he in our list of groups? Here it is. This is a team of 6. Then go to video, ID the rest of his team pic.twitter.com/79DwjMCiIZ
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 23/
Most militant teams are found this way, because in most cases there will be at least 1 member who was caught with a phone. After that a few groups remain, with no captured phones at all. But we know WHERE they were at a given time. More video ID work pic.twitter.com/C7cYif3Zq7
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 24/
Now let’s go back to our FBI interrogation. Perp said “Get a warrant!”. FBI keeps him locked, go to judge, get search warrant, then break into his car. They find his personal smartphone. they turn it on. The battery is nearly full. Ah… That means… pic.twitter.com/8op14O0j3l
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 25/
If our perp truly forgot his phone into his car, it would have drained over past few days until we got the warrant to search his car
But this phone has a near full battery. The perp had TURNED HIS PHONE OFF before he went criming with Oath Keepers
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 26/
Means he was AWARE of his guilt
Anyway, we get subpoena for his regular smartphone records for past few months. We see he’s been communicating with 3 other Oath Keepers, who ALSO were found on the Capitol, also coincidentally without their own phones pic.twitter.com/SQ236Gvi0A
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 27/
Next FBI see interesting phone pattern. All 4 phones were turned off on 5 Jan, in the late afternoon, very close to same time
& about 1 hour after these phones had been turned off, one un-allocated group of militant phones were momentarily turned on
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 28/
That group of 7 Burner phones were turned on all at the same Motel 6. For about 5 minutes each. That was when this group of Oath Keepers checked their equipment and each verified their equipment (Burner phone) was operational. pic.twitter.com/ZrskACJ4uI
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 29/
The photos of the 4 Oath Keepers are brought to the Motel 6. They identify 2 of them. Check out who paid for the motel room. Paid in cash (dead end)
But now they chase the remaining 3 members. They subpoena phone records of the known 3 other members pic.twitter.com/XhSACqVqA2
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 30/
By cross-referencing phone traffic of the 4 known Oath Keepers, they see several other Oath Keepers, three of whom are in videos on Capitol near these 4 terrorists. Bingo
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
The Wire: Trump Special 31/
FBI track where these Burner phones were sold. A 7-Eleven in Pennsylvania. Our Oath Keepers are from Virginia. On the day the phones were sold, two of these 7 had their phones travel North towards Pennsylvania, then turned off at the border pic.twitter.com/yhDDzNDPYk
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 28, 2021
Now, this guy is obviously on the other side of the fence, meaning he has no reason to hold back on how they conducted this operation. He’s cheering it on and bragging about how it was done – a testament to the great halls of state justice that holds political prisoners and conducts mass medical experiments in violation of basic human rights. Such a thing means nothing to these people. But through that hubris we glean much. He’s detailing what I’ve been telling the world for a long while now. There’s a right way and a wrong way to do this.
As this thing continues to metastasize into whatever it will become, the very same Power Elite who are struggling to maintain their grasp on control will resort to increasingly severe levels of intrusion into your daily patterns of life. Its a promise. If you’re not paying attention but simultaneously bitching about it, or worse, thinking that attending a ‘protest’ or hanging out on social media with people that tell you what you want to hear is somehow going to fix it all, you really are up shit creek.
Then again, training and organization at the local most level, an apparent foreign concept in suburban America, is the answer. There’s a reason Labor Union Chapters are called Locals. Its worked over and over.
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So how do we communicate, what is best to stay off the radar(as much as possible)? I know all these devices are monitored. I’m trying to set up, at new home location, a “SMART” free zone. Sometimes it’s overwhelming to figure out! I try to think back to my younger days, when only had a house phone, wrote letters, sent pictures, watch tv with 4 channels & used an antenna! Sounds old-fashioned, but won’t be intrusive! We survived then. But today just can’t work completely like that, now. What are best ways to protect yourself?
I described that in detail in the past and explained it in the opening paragraph.
If you read it, you’d see it.
I did read it. All of it. I didn’t click open the highlighted threads, sorry. And I don’t have opportunity to read or listen to everything, forgive me, wont happen again.
And yet you felt compelled to comment.
Even though it’s static, rather than mobile, how about
hardwired field-style phones, with (some of) the wires
running in buried PVC pipe/conduit, for redundancy?
But I don’t use a cellphone, so OTA security
doesn’t matter (as much) to me, anyway.
Thinking about it, I’m actually glad that
I didn’t take the bait, and travel to D.C.,
because it sounds like it’s become a clusterfuck,
all around.
Pray for the salvation of the tyrants, and pray for the patriots.
Let’s be realistic.
That’s not.
The only way I see that even remotely useful is maybe running it to an LP/OP outside of your retreat
That is the only implementation.
For what’s implied here its 100% not.
Yeah that is what I gathered as well.
Scout, seriously, thank you for hammering this point home again. Even a lot of like minded are still doing patriot stuff with their cell phones. This is something that really needs to be hammered home and hammered home most hard. The episodes were episode 31, 33, and 37 IIRC. We’re on the 90th or so episode of Radio Contra. I mean, it’s time to get serious for all of you who still want to play on the phone. You are a liability if you insist on facebook, gab, and your mobile device.
I was in your RTO class not too long ago. You are a very astute observer and I might add a f**king genius at dissecting the issues at hand. Thank you for all you do. I remember something you said one day I will never forget, about helicopters. “If you can hear them, you are within range”. Kudos to you brother. Keep the rubber side down.
People would rather get teeth pulled than take the steps to have secure and persistent communication. It’s really infuriating.
Regional ham nets. Local Simplex 2 meter nets. Link up in meat space. Its not really that hard. There is life after you dump your cell ball and chain.
Thanks good shit here man.
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