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Originally Posted by jimbob
It remains to see if we get any ill effects on this hack.
Too early to say.
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Really? I only say: Business espionage. Telephone banking. VIPs, celebs, politicians - and the yellow press.
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All of the outputs are now detailed in a vast table, which can be used to determine the encryption key used to secure the conversation or text message.
"It's like a telephone book - if someone tells you a name you can look up their number," he said.
Using the codebook, a "beefy gaming computer and $3,000 worth of radio equipment" would allow anyone to decrypt signals from the billions of GSM users around the world, he said.
Signals could be decrypted in "real time" with $30,000 worth of equipment, Mr Nohl added.
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