[143502] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 4g hack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Thu Aug 11 03:26:25 2011
In-Reply-To: <4E43777A.9090907@knownelement.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:25:38 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Charles N Wyble <charles@knownelement.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Charles N Wyble
<charles@knownelement.com> wrote:
> http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Aug/76
>
> Wondering what folks think about this? If this was true then we just
> entered a whole new era of mass WAN exploitation.
>
This isn't really all that new is it? haven't people been able to buy
3g/pcs/etc antennae and such off ebay for a while and intercept
conversations/data/etc for a long time? GSM was 'hacked' (decrypted
via some rainbow tables) several years ago as well.
If you ship it over the air and there isn't a reasonable encryption
scheme in place, don't you expect it to be seen?
