Code breakers crack GSM cellphone encryption

[David Honig]

At 05:04 PM 9/8/03 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
>Why the heck would a government agency have to break the GSM encryption
>at all? The encryption is only on the airlink, and all GSM calls travel
>through 
>the POTS land line system in the clear, where they are subject to 
>warranted wiretaps.
>
>Breaking GSM is only of useful if you have no access to the landline
>portion of the system.

You forget that some regimes want to listen to GSM calls
in places that they don't control.







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