IP: More on cell phone snooping and GSM crack

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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>Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 09:57:05 -0500
>To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
>From: David Banisar <banisar@2rad.net>
>Subject: cell phone intereception
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>Declan,
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>http://wired.lycos.com/news/politics/0,1283,32900,00.html
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>Moran from the GSM association claims that there is no hardware
>available to intercept GSM calls. I just wanted to point out that
>there are many commercial devices sold that are designed to intercept
>cell phone communications, and i belive that many of them have been
>redesigned to intercept digital communications (remember
>Triggerfish?). These are typically only supposed to be sold to law
>enforcement (at least under US law) but I imagine that any mega corp
>or rich individual with enough $$ can get one also.
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>Dave
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>Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 20:45:31 +0100 (CET)
>From: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
>To: declan@well.com
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>James Moran, the fraud and security director of the GSM Association in
>Dublin, says that "nowhere in the world has it been demonstrated --an
>ability to intercept a call on the GSM network. That's a fact.... To our
>knowledge there's no hardware capable of intercepting."
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>At home, I have a screen shot of a commercial GSM interception station
>operating in Moscow. I even have the manual. Unfortunately, it is in
>Russian. These devices are sold for around USD 30k. I know I could build
>one for well under USD 10k.
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