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Depending on who is using it, it is either a great way to work against terrorists or 'Big Brother' on steroids.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
You probably shouldn’t be saying anything to revealing on a cell phone anyways. I know for a fact that you can listen in on cordless telephone calls with a police scanner too fyi.
Duhhhh!
It was programmed to do this by design, it was simply not intended that other than the cellular companies could do this.
They are human viruses.
Stories like these always kind of creep me out. Some days I feel paranoid, other days not paranoid enough.
So GSM was in part relying on security through obscurity. That is always a failure in the end.
The encryption system that scrambles this data can be defeated using a huge list of encryption keys, called a rainbow table
If they're using rainbow tables, this is likely the cheaper GSM encryption. BTW, it's France's fault. Seriously. They didn't want strong encryption in the hands of the people, so they had the GSM encryption system dumbed-down.
Mr Nohl said that before now commercial equipment that could spy on calls cost upwards of £35,000.
So this is about proving it can be done on the cheap. That it can be done at all was proven long ago.