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Cracking GSM

RobertM writes "Professor Eli Biham, one of the worlds most famous crypto analysts, together with two of his students presented an interesting paper on flaws in GSM at the IACR Crypto conference. The GSM association is not happy. Read more on theReg." There's also a Reuters article about the situation.

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  1. Yey! by CrackedButter · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Lobbying, Bribes, "Donations"+Legislation = DMCA Worldwide

    1. Re:Yey! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Because the article has nothing whatsoever to do with the DMCA, you fuckwit.

  2. Candlelit dinner, anyone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Afterwards we can fuck each other's asses raw with this here cheese grator.

    1. Re:Candlelit dinner, anyone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That was without doubt the most poignant second post I've ever read. Please sign me up!

  3. asdf by nnnneedles · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    no posts?

    --
    Will code a sig generator for food
  4. Other news about "Cracking GSM" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, GSM is smocking crack!

  5. TP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Tenth post! w007!

    If I fail it, I will fart into a vase and then breathe in the vapors. A FMV link will be posted!

  6. Re:How does this affect US/Israel relations? by borgdows · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    nothing!

    but if the scientists came from an Arab country, they would have been nuked for that...

  7. Re:How does this affect US/Israel relations? by mrtroy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It doesnt.

    The US will still continue to fund and supply weapons to the Israelis to allow them to kill Palestinians.

    Because, you know, thats what the US has been doing and they will be damned if they stop!

    --
    [I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
  8. bite me, frenchy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  9. Re:This is news? by mumblestheclown · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    while this isn't exactly funny, it's not exactly flamebait either. why are there no punishments for idiot moderators?

  10. Re:How does this affect US/Israel relations? by lederhosen · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes of course it is wrong.

    Just replace Israel with Nazi Germany and
    it will be obious to you. But then, you
    seam not to understand libral values.

  11. Re:How does this affect US/Israel relations? by KingRamsis · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    will if the mass systematic murder of palestinan civilians didn't affect the US/Israeli relations...

    NOTHING WILL!!!

  12. Re:Europeans, mod this up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    'the faggot side'

    Ah, lovely articulate American political debates. It's quite evident that you can't properly refute the points that troll made, so instead you resort to lame insults.

    You see why much of the world thinks Yanks are braindead hicks now?

  13. Re:3G phones safe by PoorPost+Troll · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    PoorPost Form v. 0.21

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  14. Re:Europeans, mod this up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Regards to your mother's cunt.

    Yes, not like you, who crept out of an American Brown Asshole (C).

    Sincerely yours,

    - A Patriotic European ---

  15. hapy sniffing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YUO F4IL 1T!! L4|\/|3r

  16. Re:How does this affect US/Israel relations? by Zachary+Kessin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Check your facts, Israel is a small country enagaged in a war for our very survival. 2 weeks ago in the middle of a so called "cease fire" a palistinian man dressed up as a religous Jew and got onto the Jerusalem #2 bus, filled with families and blew it up. He killed 21 people including 6 children and put over a hundred into the hopital. I live in Jerusalem, and I worry everytime I get onto a bus.

    Israel does not target civilians, it targets the leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad who are engaged in attempts to murder as many Jews as posible. Yes they often life in populated areas, and yes when we attack them sometimes civilians get hurt or killed.

    You should note that the Geneva Conventions specifily say you can not hide parties to a war in a civilian population to protect them. And if you do it is on your head the damage caused.

    Israel has risked its very existance for a so called pease, and for our trouble have had to deal with a constant stream of morters and bombs falling on our population centers.

    If Arafat had wanted peace it has been offered to him a number of times, and he has rejected it every time. The Palistinian schools teach hate, and most of the Arabs don't even recognise that there is a Jewish state here, prefering to refer to us as the "Zionist Entity".

    --
    Erlang Developer and podcaster
  17. Re: Why do you hate arabs so ? by guybarr · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    You say Israel has:

    250 nuclear weapons that makes it a rival to China,

    Later, after an amusing bit of zoology, you predict: ... Zionism will self destruct on our life time.

    Which brings the question:

    Why do you hate Israel's arab neighbours so ? If such a raving lunatic (as you say) with 250 nukes (as you claim) will self destruct (as you hope), won't it take its Arab neighbours with it ?

    I would think every sane Arab should prey to Allah that Israel is never destroyed ...

    Or is that kind of reasoning too difficult for you ?

    --
    Working for necessity's mother.
  18. Re:How does this affect US/Israel relations? by KingRamsis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Of caurse, the Sabrah & Shatilla massacre was actually done by lebanese christians ... But let's not get facts in the way of bias ...

    really? not only he is a convicted war criminal but he is still actively murdering people, and yes my statement about him describes him accurately.

  19. Re:Anti-israely bigot wants to date an israelly .. by KingRamsis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    no but it shows tolerance you cant seem to understand.