Silicon.fr reporting GSM crypto broken

[[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Owen Blacker)]

Brian Morrison:
> 
> Someone recently asked me (because they seem to think I know about
> phones and stuff) what the little exclamation mark in a triangle was on
> her phone display.

Don't think I've ever seen that.  Do Nokias do it?  :)

> "Oh, I said, that means that for some reason your conversation is not
> encrypted across the radio link to the base station. Probably a glitch
> in the phone network, I've seen it once or twice before"
> 
> Her reply was to the effect that she couldn't see it mattered really
> "as anyone listening in would do so at the exchange wouldn't they".

Surely the correct answer would be "Not if they're crooks trying to take
advantage of you, they wouldn't"?  :)


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