Lexta - Slashdot User

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Most secure mobile OS? 1

Submitted by Lexta on Monday March 26, 2012 @09:12AM

Lexta writes: So I'm contemplating my next smartphone purchase and I've been a little put off by all of the security exploits posted on Slashdot over the last few months, particularly for Android. E.g. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/02/1829237/security-vulnerabilities-on-htc-android-devices
So I wanted to ask Slashdot, whats the most secure stock standard (not jail broken) mobile OS?

Submission + - Open Source attempt to crack GSM encryption (ieee.org)

Submitted by Lexta on Friday December 04, 2009 @07:48PM

Lexta writes: "Karsten Nohl, chief research scientist with H4RDW4RE, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based security research firm, is mounting what could be the most ambitious attempt yet to compromise the GSM phone system". The intended approach is to create and open source project to spread the computation of a giant look up table across more than 80 machines. Interestingly they've openly stated that nVidia's CUDA technology will be used to execute parallel elements of the problem on GPU's as well.

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