How the Greek cellphone network was tapped.
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Mon Jul 9 19:39:26 EDT 2007
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Ian Farquhar:
>
>> Crypto has been an IP minefield for some years. With the expiry of
>> certain patents, and the availability of other unencumbered crypto
>> primitives (eg. AES), we may see this change. But John's other
>> points are well made, and still valid. Downloadable MP3 ring tones
>> are a selling point. E2E security isn't (although I've got to
>> wonder about certain teenage demographics... :)
>
> It's also an open question whether network operators subject to
> interception requirements can legally offer built-in E2E encryption
> capabilities without backdoors.
Makes me wonder how this will effect the OpenMoko phone if someone builds
an encryption layer for it. (OpenMoko is a totally open sourced phone.)
I am still trying to convince my wife to let me get a developers kit for
it.
--
"ANSI C says access to the padding fields of a struct is undefined.
ANSI C also says that struct assignment is a memcpy. Therefore struct
assignment in ANSI C is a violation of ANSI C..."
- Alan Cox
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