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RE: Cell Phone Code Cracked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Blossom)
Fri Mar 21 16:03:23 1997
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 12:19:57 -0800
From: Eric Blossom <eb@comsec.com>
To: Patrick.Mullen@gsc.gte.com
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=GTE%l=NDHM06-970320212916Z-50459@ndhm06.ndhm.gtegsc.com> (Patrick.Mullen@gsc.gte.com)
>>Technical details of the security system were supposed to be
>>a closely guarded secret, known only to a tight circle of
>>industry engineers. But the researchers performed their work
>>based on technical documents that were leaked from within the
>>communications industry and disseminated over the Internet
>>late last year.
>
>Hm. Can you say "(In)Security through obscurity?" :-(
Actually it's worse than that. The documents are available to anybody
with $300. I got mine from Global Engineering Documents, then called
TIA and asked politely for "Appendix A".
Eric
