80% of Cell Phone Encryption Solutions Insecure

An anonymous reader writes "Mobile Magazine writes about a blogger named Notrax who has tested 15 methods of secure encryption for mobile phones; out of those he found only 3 could not be cracked at some level. '12 of them were "worthless." It's easy to take the software at face value when it "tells you" that the call is secured. But how does someone actually go about being sure that it is secured? Notrax did some digging and discovered he could break in to almost all of them in under 30 minutes.'" (Above link is to a slightly older description of Notrax's approach; then, it was 9 out of 10 products that were worthless, instead of 12 out of 15.)

Comments

Re:I speak in code

[ascari]

The Missile from France went down my pants, so I need you to dance and prance

Translation: "Dear Susan, My new room mate Jean Claude has shown me aspects of myself that I wasn't aware of before. Please don't pine for me. Go out, have some fun and maybe you meet somebody who can appreciate you in a way I cannot anymore."

Re:I Don't Trust Wireless In General

[MichaelSmith]

I don't have any security at all on my wireless network but any traffic I want to protect goes through ssh on all the networks I want to use.