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Re: TIME Magazine on GSM cell phone crack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (RL Bob Morgan)
Wed Apr 15 12:59:22 1998
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 02:15:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: RL Bob Morgan <Bob.Morgan@Stanford.EDU>
To: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980415075542.10601E-100000@pandora.cryptsoft.com>
Sound bite (from memory, but more or less complete) on tonight's 11 PM
news here in the Bay Area:
"You may have thought that those new digital cell phones were supposed to
be secure. Well, think again. Some Berkeley students have 'cloned' a
digital cell phone, and it only took them 6 hours to do it. It's still
the case that it's much harder to do this than with analog cell phones.
Now, tonight's sports news ... "
8^)
- RL "Bob" Morgan
Stanford
