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28C3: New attacks on GSM mobiles and security measures shown (The H)

28C3: New attacks on GSM mobiles and security measures shown (The H)

Posted Dec 30, 2011 22:43 UTC (Fri) by Kensan (subscriber, #52930)
In reply to: 28C3: New attacks on GSM mobiles and security measures shown (The H) by Cyberax
Parent article: 28C3: New attacks on GSM mobiles and security measures shown (The H)

This mail on the Osmocom BB mailing list is Harald Welte's take on the issue: http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/baseband-devel/2011-De...


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28C3: New attacks on GSM mobiles and security measures shown (The H)

Posted Dec 31, 2011 11:08 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

So, basically:
1) Existing licensed devices can be used.
2) Software in itself is not a device.
3) Software + device probably need to be certified.
4) The legality of end-user use of a modified firmware is unknown.

That's not that different from what I've said.

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