re: Insecurity in Finnish parlament (computers)

["Markus Jansson" <markus.jansson () hushmail com>]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:07:50 +0200 Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-
matti.laurio () netti fi> wrote:
> > TeliaSonera also disabled crypto (A5/1) on GSM:s for some time, 
> > which made it possible to eavesdrop on its/goverments GSM:s. 
This was
> > a the "big" fuzz.
>
> I'm aware about these claims, but Mr. Esa Korvenmaa, spokeperson 
> of TeliaSonera Finland says this is not true.

Well, several people in different discussion forums in Finland 
found it out by GSM analysing tools and posted it up. Those tools 
shown that peoples phones (in TeliaSonera network) used A5/0 
cipher, meaning that no encryption was used. I doubt that all of 
them are simultaneously lying and TeliaSonera is telling the truth. 
:D



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