Intersting Engadget Article About GSM Hacking
Researchers claim GSM calls can be hacked on the cheap
Posted Feb 21st 2008 10:10PM by Joshua Topolsky
Filed under: GSM, Misc
Callers, your worst nightmare is coming true... maybe. According to a report, a group of hackers at the Black Hat conference in Washington D.C. claim that they're able to hack GSM calls with equipment costing about $1,000. If you believe the team (and we're inclined to at least have a listen), they can decrypt GSM phone conversations and text messages on a network using inexpensive tools called field programmable gate arrays. Until now, the cost of the technology required to hack GSM transmissions has been prohibitively expensive for all but your government and large-scale snooping operations, but that's beginn...
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Posted Feb 21st 2008 10:10PM by Joshua Topolsky
Filed under: GSM, Misc
Callers, your worst nightmare is coming true... maybe. According to a report, a group of hackers at the Black Hat conference in Washington D.C. claim that they're able to hack GSM calls with equipment costing about $1,000. If you believe the team (and we're inclined to at least have a listen), they can decrypt GSM phone conversations and text messages on a network using inexpensive tools called field programmable gate arrays. Until now, the cost of the technology required to hack GSM transmissions has been prohibitively expensive for all but your government and large-scale snooping operations, but that's beginn...
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Yeah so all you terrorists out there........switch to CDMA...quick. Some of us don't care who's listening, we have nothing to hide and will bore the hell out of the listener.
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