Over the last week most of the media across the world covered the cracking of A5/1, the algorithm responsible for the privacy of GSM voice calls. The announcement happened at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin on the 27th of December.
Have collected the best coverage, links below:
New York Times “Cellphone Encryption Code Is Divulged”
Financial Times “Security fear as mobile phone code is cracked” and “Secret mobile phone code cracked”
The Guardian “Mobile phone security cracked, says German hacker”
Telegraph “Mobile phone security codes cracked”
BBC “Secret mobile phone codes cracked”
Mashable “Encryption Code for 80% of the World’s Mobile Calls Cracked”
Dark Reading “Researchers Prepare Practical Demonstration Of GSM Encryption Cracking Technology”
Plus Business Week, Forbes, MSNBC, CNBC, Boston Globe, Washington Post and ABCNews syndicated the Associated Press “Guide to breaking cell phone security revealed” article.
And of course to get the pulse from the broader community one can look at the twitter stream for GSM hacking.
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