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Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking

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Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>> felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> wrote

>>>> http://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/the-end-of-privacy-as-we-kno
>>>> w-it-60-minutes-uncovers-huge-mobile-phone-security-vulnerabilities/story-
>>>> fn6vihic-1227485884359

>> Its completely trivial to fake what they did and that's what they did.
>> They obviously had that fool Coulthart use their base and did it that 
>> way.

> Whether they faked it or not, it's been easy to do for years:
> "Cracking GSM with RTL-SDR for Thirty Dollars"
> http://hackaday.com/2013/10/22/cracking-gsm-with-rtl-sdr-for-thirty-dollars/

That doesn’t let you work out where Xenophon was at the time of the call.

> I only paid $0.50 for my USB TV tuner at a garage sale. I should give this
> phone hacking a go some time. With my own phone calls of course.

>> They can't steal anything from your phone that isn't on it.

> I didn't notice anything about getting stuff stored on the phones

Right at the beginning, a completely stupid claim, pure hype.

> (though depending on the model I'm sure
> there are numerous hacks for that too).

Not with the best of them.

> Seems just to be about listening in to phone calls.

Nope, they claimed a hell of a lot more than just that.

Even you must have noticed the wog working out where
Coulthart was in his car in London, close to Big Ben etc. 

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'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-16 23:30 +1000
  Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 05:06 +1000
    Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 06:27 +1000
      Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2015-08-16 21:08 +0000
        Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 07:53 +1000
          Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-17 11:28 +1000
            Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 12:48 +1000
              Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-17 19:48 +1000
                Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-18 07:23 +1000
        Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-17 11:33 +1000
          Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 12:51 +1000
    Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "dechucka" <dechucka1@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-17 07:29 +1000
      Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 07:55 +1000
        Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "dechucka" <dechucka1@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-17 08:59 +1000
          Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2015-08-17 11:19 +1000
            Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 12:42 +1000
          Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 12:39 +1000
    Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-17 11:21 +1000
      Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 12:47 +1000
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  Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2015-08-17 22:52 +0000
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