On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 7:59 PM, p q <[email protected]> wrote: > so , what's the point in all this , to insist that GSM is broken ? everybody > knows this . but is it still secure for average citizen ? yes it is . I guess you miss the point, that NOT everybody knows that it is broken. It is necessary to think about a new way to secure our communication. At the moment it might be very expensive to do such an attack. But what about the next couple of years? Hardware is getting cheaper every day. The software defined radio community gets bigger. And all the knowledge we already have is not going away. We learn more and more each day about this technology. So it is necessary to push the provider to move faster. And the easiest way to do so is propaganda. Of course, it is not true that an average person can just buy some USRP and together with some open source code he can immediately capture and decode the calls from his neighbor. But it is a picture which shows a future in which the most people don't want to live. So the provider will react, no matter how real this is. It is only necessary to push this topic to the media. And this target was very successful succeeded via the talks. So I guess that is the point in all of this.. Don't you think?
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