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4G and CDMA Reportedly Hacked At DEFCON
An anonymous reader writes "At the DEFCON 19 hacking conference it seems that a full man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack was successfully launched against all 4G and CDMA transmissions in and around the venue, the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas. This MITM attack enabled hackers to gain permanent kernel-level root access in some Android and PC devices using a rootkit, and non-persistent user space access in others. In both cases, whoever launched this attack on CDMA and 4G devices was able to steal data and monitor conversations. For now the only evidence that such an attack occurred is a Full Disclosure mailing list post, but in the next few hours and days, depending on the response from cellular carriers, we should know whether it's real or not."
Which "4G" technology are we talking? WiMAX? LTE? AT&T&Tmobile's HSPA cranked up to 11?
Anybody want my mod points?
My technology plan for BlackHat:
1) Put phone on airplane mode
2) Once a day, drive to the middle of the desert to check e-mail/voice mail/text messages.
3) Put phone back on airplane mode.
4) Hope some enterprising asshole hasn't put up some crap in the middle of the desert.
Probably a little over paranoid, but not much. In reality I'd probably be a bit less paranoid than that, but I'd definitely move a few hotels down to do anything more serious than checking text messages.
I don't need a million points of light, just two points of multi-mode fiber and a 10 Gig-E router.
Most cell phone companies use the suffix G to add respectability to what is otherwise a meaningless number.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
For what it's worth, I still can't parse what your original post said, nor do I get the joke even after explanation.