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Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking

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On 17-August-2015 7:08 AM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> In aus.computers 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/
>
> 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 (though
> depending on the model I'm sure there are numerous hacks for that too).
> Seems just to be about listening in to phone calls.
>

so is it the case that once out of the (short? limited?) range of the 
imsi your phone cannot be monitored anymore? also.. how can an SMS be 
sent, as mentioned, without knowing a phone number?

-- 
rgds,

Pete
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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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