Monday, April 25, 2005

Now they can tap ur phone!!

An Israeli scientist.Elad Barkan and his team found a flaw in the GSM(Global System for Mobile communications) code that allow you to break into mobile phone calls and even take over callers identity.According to Barkan,The GSM code gives high prority to call qualities and noise interference correction after which it encrypts the call.This enabled the hackers to break into the call. The GSM association said that they know about this vulnerability,and had even released a patch to fix the encryption algorithm.However the hackers claimed that they managed to surpase the new encryptin system. So its not safe to carry out confidential conversation over GSM networks as your rivals can easily tap it.

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