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To: Moonray who wrote (14752)	4/14/1998 10:58:00 AM
From: jhild	Respond to of 22053

Cryptographers crack digital cell phone code 9.27 a.m. ET (1328 GMT) April 14, 1998 BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - It was a challenge a trio of computer students and professionals could not resist: proving "tamperproof'' digital cellular phones are actually vulnerable. After about six hours of work, two graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley and a computer cryptologist were able to "clone'' the phone, allowing them to make unauthorized calls from another phone. "Given the state of the security of other cellular phone systems, I wasn't terribly, terribly surprised,'' said Ian Goldberg, one of the students. The three looked at the project as a challenge. USA Today reported the breakthrough on Monday. Still, the amount of time and effort it took to clone the codes makes the digital phone security much more difficult to circumvent than analog cellular phones, which in comparison are easily breached. The three cracked the codes guarding a Global System for Mobile Communications, or GSM, phone. The GSM digital standard is the most widely used in the world, with more than 79 million phones in use. Overcoming the security also revealed a hint that the code may have been intentionally weakened during its design to allow government agencies the ability to eavesdrop on telephone conversations, The New York Times reported today. Marc Briceno of Smartcard Developers Association, who worked with Goldberg and student David Wagner, said the weakened code would let powerful computers available to intelligence agencies decode a voice conversation relatively quickly. "I can't think of any other reason for what they did,'' Briceno said. For years, the computer industry has been rife with rumors about government intrusion or intimidation. Little evidence has ever emerged to support such speculation, the Times reported, but the origins of the GSM system are hazy. foxnews.com

To: Moonray who wrote (14752)	4/14/1998 11:12:00 AM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 22053

First the Chinese get hit by a mysterious energy pulse, now this. Better listen to Art Bell tonight and find out what's going on.

To: Moonray who wrote (14752)	4/14/1998 11:20:00 AM
From: jhild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

I have a question about the frame relay outage - whose equipment? This can't be good PR for the vendor.

To: Moonray who wrote (14752)	4/14/1998 1:09:00 PM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Update: As of this post, the AT&T frame relay cloud is still down. Good thing we had backup contingencies. What a pain.......