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Re: TIME Magazine on GSM cell phone crack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Mon Apr 13 20:40:47 1998
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, marc@scard.org
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
Date: 13 Apr 1998 20:28:45 -0400
In-Reply-To: Declan McCullagh's message of Mon, 13 Apr 1998 08:48:40 -0700 (PDT)
Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> writes:
>> Now crooks scanning the airwaves can remotely tap into a call
>> and duplicate the owner's digital ID. "We can clone the phones,"
>> brags Marc Briceno, who organized the cracking.
http://www.scard.org/press/19980413-01/ says:
>> The SDA cautions that no practical over-the-air attack is known yet
>> but that one should not be ruled out.
Ok, so which is it?
Marc
