Jaap-Henk Hoepman – on security, privacy and…

Global GSM eavesdropping network.

Posted in Seeds by Jaap-Henk on January 3, 2011

GSM has been broken up to the point that a phone call or an SMS can be intercepted using an ordinary phone and a PC. The impact of this attack is still somewhat limited, because to eavesdrop, you need to be close to the target mobile phone. However, with a bit of ‘crowdsourcing’ we can overcome this ‘limitation’.

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