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GSM Crypto Cracked

Posted by CmdrTaco from the not-a-big-surprise dept.
mochaone writes "wired has a story about flaws in the GSM scrambling algorithm can allow snoopers to pry in on "private" calls in less than one second. " The article talks about other problems with GSM phones too. Some interesting comments on the practicality, but they say a Pentium with 128 megs of RAM can pull off the decrypt.
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