serious threat models
Sidney Markowitz
sidney at sidney.com
Sat Feb 4 14:34:25 EST 2006
Matt Blaze wrote:
> Yes, it's not at all clear from these stories just what was
> going on or how "high tech" the attack would have to be. What does
> "diverting" to a prepaid mobile mean?
There is more information in Bruce Scheier's blog entry and his links to blog
and news articles. It hit slashdot yesterday:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/02/phone_tapping_i.html
According to those reports, the attack involved modifying (configuring?)
software on a Vodafone switch to cause all calls to/from some 100 mobile phone
numbers to be conference calls with some prepaid mobile numbers that recorded
the conversations.
Sidney Markowitz
http://www.sidney.com
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