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Very misleading title. The article mentions that 4 phones, a laptop computer, and a lot of specialized software were needed (they mention open-source, but ther

• sdfdfgsdfgh 16y ago
  But compared to the previous 'hack' that needed a $50K radio and weeks of post-processing it's pretty good. Especialyl since it also demonstrates how to target a particular phone - the previous GSM cracks captured all the packets on all the phones in a cell, so it was only much later you worked out which was the phone you were looking for - too late if they moved to a new cell while you were recording.
• cnvogel 16y ago
  The process itself is quite fast, after watching the talk I'd guess 3 minutes for singling out a single phone via sending SMS, and maybe 2 minutes for cracking the key itself. The software is indeed very specialized, and according to the guy doing the demo it will be released, but without the last polishing to run the attack on an actual live network, but claims that it took him less than 1 week of work to come from currently published code to the stuff he's shown in the attack. But of course to come to the level of expertiese of Sylvain Munaut will take a mere mortal more than a year of studying GSM... ;-)