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AT&T Won't Block Black Hat Eavesdropping Demo
snydeq writes "AT&T says it won't interfere with a highly anticipated talk on intercepting cell phone calls at the Black Hat conference this week. Hacker Chris Paget last week said that he plans to demonstrate on Saturday how to set up what's essentially a fake cell tower that allows him listen in on nearby mobile calls. But Tuesday, he wrote on his blog that he had 'heard that AT&T may be considering suing me to stop my talk.' AT&T, however, has insisted it has no plans to interfere with the talk."
On the other hand, if they don't kill it, the presenter may well have just committed a number of crimes in front of a live audience (and probably a fair few cameras)...
If they do, he'll just have some nastygrams to hang on his wall, and a story of being oppressed by the man, without any lingering consequences.
They might just be ignoring it entirely, figuring that the Streisand effect is not with them on this one; but the path of maximum vindictiveness actually requires them to let him go ahead...