New York Times article: Security Flaw Allows Wiretaps to Be Evaded, Study Finds
By JOHN SCHWARTZ and JOHN MARKOFF Published: November 30, 2005 The technology used for decades by law enforcement agents to wiretap telephones has a security flaw that allows the person being wiretapped to stop the recorder remotely, according to research by computer security experts who studied the system. It is also possible to falsify the numbers dialed, they said. Someone being wiretapped can easily employ these "devastating countermeasures" with off-the-shelf equipment, said the lead researcher, Matt Blaze, an associate professor of computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/30/national/30tap.html original paper at: http://www.crypto.com/papers/wiretapping/ -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
