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Re: TIME Magazine on GSM cell phone crack

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jyri Kaljundi)
Tue Apr 14 12:16:10 1998

Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 17:27:54 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Jyri Kaljundi <jk@stallion.ee>
To: David Wagner <daw@cs.berkeley.edu>
cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199804140120.SAA32388@joseph.cs.berkeley.edu>

On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, David Wagner wrote:

> By the way, I would consider it a bit premature to conclude
> that over-the-air attacks are feasible.  They may well be, but
> we haven't done the experiment.

Actually how would a cloned phone work in a real network, next to the
original? Will they both work next to each-other? Will they both ring at
the same time? Will some networks block the whole number when they see 2
phones with same number registering to the network?

Jyri Kaljundi
jk@stallion.ee
AS Stallion Ltd
http://www.stallion.ee/


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