Attempting to decrypt the air interface is just plain stupid and far too much effort and chances are by the time you do it the call you were after is over anyway. Just as in most other security breaches, clever bad guys attack from within, slipping someone a few dollars to listen on the inside, typically at the exchange where its all good old unencrypted TDM.

Sadly this is what none of the articles mention.... The only provider of ADSL in South Africa is Telkom. No inter carrier or internet networks even play a role in this exercise. Makes me wonder about their backbone, let alone international bandwidth capacity.

Believe me our access here is sometimes so crap that we could hand rear the pigeon and still beat the download speed.

Just this is enough to get me excited. As the poor guy who had to help countless friends root their HTC's and iPhones to get tethering working....

errrr yea sure.....Virtual Iron is really kicking ass in the virtualisation market since Oracle acquired it. Thank god I got rid of all our dependence on Oracle two years ago. Unfortunately I recommended Glassfish in our organisation not too long ago - thank goodness I can pretty much drop replace that with JBoss if they decide to kill that off too.

I have to agree here. Having battled for years to even have a child, I too went through this paranoid phase, trying to find a highly technical solution to a really simple problem. I settled for teaching my three year old both our cellular numbers as well as her home address which she can rattle off perfectly along with the definitions of who to speak to since strictly speaking she shouldn't be talking to strangers. Now at five years of age she unfortunately can quite successfully use a phone to dial more than just those two numbers!!!

Because people forget too easily. I'm with you on this one - I got screwed over by Sony so many times in the past I refuse to buy anything that bears the name. Same goes for Apple - litigious fucking bastards.

We do of course - the dumbass customers due to investor greed. As someone who took six months to wean us off Oracle saving craploads in the process, moving to Netbeans and Glassfish - I'm right back where I started - except for the (PostgreSQL) database - thank god for that choice! No company in its right mind will properly support all the acquired app servers and databases when they can have a single cash cow to milk daily. Fuck Oracle!

After our budgets were slashed to pieces, I implemented the exact same setup for my Glassfish cluster and it works like a charm. Only difference is that I used HAProxy instead of LVS.

I regularly give Word, Excel and Vista the finger