I wrote a couple of days ago that The Intercept reported that the SIM and banking card maker Gemalto was hacked by GCHQ and NSA. Well, now, after just a couple of days, Gemalto says not to worry, everything is cool. We looked at our logs and while GCHQ might have gotten into our […]

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GCHQ Pilfers Encryption Keys To Cell Phones

February 23, 2015 mitch tanenbaum

We have known for a long time that the encryption on cell phone calls and text messages was relatively weak, but apparently, cracking that was more work than GCHQ, the British version of the NSA, wanted to do. People have been beating up the NSA for being, well, the NSA. I have said, whether we […]

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Gemalto Attack – We Don’t Really Know

GCHQ Pilfers Encryption Keys To Cell Phones