Re: Greek cellular wiretapping scandal

2006-06-25 Thread Florian Weimer
* Steven M. Bellovin: I have more than a passing aquaintance with the complexity of phone switch software; doing that was *hard* for anyone, especially anyone not a switch developer. Isn't Ericsson's switching software written in Erlang, is highly modular and officially supports run-time code

RE: Greek cellular wiretapping scandal

2006-06-25 Thread Alexander Philippou
From a non-technical perspective, at least one death may be linked to the incident. A communications expert who was working on the switch apparently commited suicide, but this has been questioned by some. It was recently concluded that there was no foul play involved in his tragic death.

Greek cellular wiretapping scandal

2006-06-23 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
The Greek cellular wiretapping scandal was the subject of a front-page article in today's Wall Street Journal. (It's http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115085571895085969.html?mod=hps_us_pageone for subscribers.) The broad outlines of the story are familiar to anyone who has been following