Hackers crack open mobile network

[Lucoza]

Mobile calls and texts made on any GSM network can be eavesdropped upon using four cheap phones and open source software, say security researchers.

Karsten Nohl and Sylvain Munaut demonstrated their eavesdropping toolkit at the Chaos Computer Club Congress (CCC) in Berlin.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12094227

 

[kAAPO]

Hmm... This sounds kinda interesting, have seen this long time ago.

 

[Lucoza]

Thing that I don't understand is GSM network is old and we all knew this anyway maybe they are just trying to get a story

 

[kAAPO]

Thing that I don't understand is GSM network is old and we all knew this anyway maybe they are just trying to get a story

Yup, can be...
They try to get story about everything that happens, even its useless.

 

[rokrvaibhav]

Sounds great.Btw I Have heard SIM cards can be cloned and can be used to track calls etc.

 

[zoogo]

Sounds pretty interesting. I do not believe that SIM card could be cloned.

 

[Lucoza]

I think the can be as bank card have been cloned but this was based off the gsm network and we are now not using that

 

[Caelja]

Thing that I don't understand is GSM network is old and we all knew this anyway maybe they are just trying to get a story

Yup... this is old information... I knew this before