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Saxophonist writes:
Two individuals presenting at the Black Hat security conference in Washington, D.C., demonstrated an efficient way to break the encryption on cellular telephone signals that use the GSM protocol. David Hulton and Steve Muller claim that one such method can be done in about half an hour with $1,000 worth of hardware. They plan to release that method for free, but they have another, faster method that they plan to sell for $200,000 to $500,000. They claim that this faster method can decrypt a signal in about thirty seconds.
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Saxophonist writes:
Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, spoke yesterday at the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
symposium yesterday.
He explained why people with technical knowledge need to educate their governments regarding
technology issues. "The average person in government is not of the age of people who are using all this stuff," Schmidt said. "There is a generational gap, and it's very, very real." The full story can be found
here.
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Saxophonist writes:
Engadget
reports that a Korean company has created a switch to prevent exploding batteries in portable devices. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of Korea has developed a "critical temperature switch" that will prevent the swelling of batteries due to overheating. The full
article may have more details (paid subscription required).