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UMTSUMTSPosted Jan 8, 2010 16:28 UTC (Fri) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)In reply to: UMTS by anton Parent article: GSM encryption crack made public
Your use of "thugs" for citizens who value their privacy appears to come from the idea that innocent citizens have nothing to hide. Read again. That was from the point of view of the non-endusers. If it was up to me I'd let everybody communicate securely. However, unfortunately neither the government nor the mobile operators have seen fit to consult me for my opinion. Quite on the contrary -- over here in Europe they're busy building a large infrastructure based on the assumption that everybody is a potential criminal, hence everyone's use of telecomms (phone calls, SMS, e-mail, ...) must be monitored and stored for an extended period of time for the benefit of the police and assorted three-letter agencies. It was all the German Constitutional Court could do to keep them from exploiting the data to try to identify, e.g., traffic transgressors and Internet downloaders here in Germany, pending a more thorough judicial review.
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