Callers, your worst nightmare is coming true... maybe. According to a report, a group of hackers at the Black Hat conference in Washington D.C. claim that they're able to hack GSM calls with equipment costing about $1,000. If you believe the team (and we're inclined to at least have a listen), they can decrypt GSM phone conversations and text messages on a network using inexpensive tools called field programmable gate arrays. Until now, the cost of the technology required to hack GSM transmissions has been prohibitively expensive for all but your government and large-scale snooping operations, but that's beginning to change. Not only can this technique allow access to calls, but some of the tech demonstrated at the conference might also enable a user to pinpoint a phone's distance from the surveillance hardware, and find out what type of device is being used. There was no mention of CDMA hacking, so you might want to move over to Sprint for all your seedy activities. Er, we mean stay on Sprint.
posted February 21st 2008 10:10PM
yeah, stay on sprint! :P
--James
No James, that wont help. Sprint listens everything. I also know that you are many forums and that you are a homosexual. You used to own a Sanyo 8100, LG 535, an HTC Mogul, and now a Touch. Everything is watched. shall I post your IP too? How is Wisconsin?
wireless transmission can be intercepted, no matter what
I like how you make FPGAs sound so cryptic.
This would be ever so fun to use at my school. I could just imagine reading 100's of text messages a day and blackmail er... i mean helping out friends with this new info.
"Can you hear me now?" just got a little bit creepy, but I guess it's a good thing I'm on Verizon!
3G FTW...?
nope.. that wont help you either... someone will ALWAYS be listening! Just remmeber that...
I have a super cheap way of listening on people's conversations. I just stand quietly close to them where they don't seem me. Too bad it only works for 1-way.
Sprint & Verizon the choice for drug dealers and kidnappers.
That should sell a few phones
I can't believe no one commented on the hackers poster. Crash Override FTW!