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GSM eavesdropping demo'd in Berlin

Wired’s John Borland writes that researchers demonstrated GSM cellular decryption today at the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Congress in Berlin: “a start-to-finish means of eavesdropping on encrypted GSM cell phone calls and text messages, using only four sub-$15 telephones as network sniffers, a laptop computer and a variety of open-source software.”

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