cell phone communications are not as secure as you might think

Started by Darren Dirt, August 12, 2011, 09:09:21 AM

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Darren Dirt

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/08/12/codebreaker-karsten-nohl-why-your-phone-is-insecure-by-design/

a bit heavy content at times, but "code-breaker" guy tells us what he and others have found ... but he can only speculate why it is the way it is.
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Thorin

Glad to see that there are still white-hat hackers that break things to show they can be broken and need to be improved, instead of to steal people's identities.
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Mr. Analog

Interesting reading so far, given how fast cell phones proliferated over the last 20 years I'd be surprised if those systems were NOT a labyrinthine mess...
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Darren Dirt

fyi the white hat in the OP as identifying the so-called "secured" protocols as ... not so much. But also yes it seems some carriers or regions will be truly "un"secured communications. yikes. Makes a certain Pulp Fiction telephone scene come to mind ;)


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