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It should not be surprising that a system that is subject to lawful intercept requirements has weak encryption, especially pre-lift of the export ban.
by nimish 5y ago
It should not be surprising that a system that is subject to lawful intercept requirements has weak encryption, especially pre-lift of the export ban.
- mytailorisrich 5y agoThis is really to intercept over the air (so not necessarily for fully 'legal' intercept but also intelligence services). If law enforcement needs to wiretap a specific phone/SIM they only need to request it to the operator. Over-the-air encryption is irrelevant. Nowadays operators can duplicate all packets and send copies to law enforcement/security services in real time so that they can monitor 100% of a given phone's traffic from their offices.
- cs2733 5y agoExactly, this is for third party access or at least I've assumed for a long time all communications using standard tools have always been open for scrutinity. It's nothing new either - for as long as there is postal service your mail could be open by order of this or that government oficial. Not even the Pony Express was immune to that ;-) If you want greater secrecy do like the paranoid intel community has been doing since at least the cold war and exchange messages on seemingly disconnected channels - say 2 different newspaper columns, wordpress blogs or even websites made to look like robot-generated SEO spam, using code that was previously agreed in person, with everyone keeping hardcopies if necessary.
- ganzuul 5y agoIt was supposed to take 6 hours using Finland's fastest supercomputer at the time. So said my professor.