Re: [Nolug] Security & Cell Phones

On 06/23/2011 08:40 PM, John Souvestre wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I know that this isn’t Linux related, but I’m hoping I can sneak a quick
> question in.
>
> When using a cell phone are voice calls encrypted? I’m sure that the
> carrier can listen to them, but how about John Q Public with the right
> RF equipment?

Googled "cell phone decrypt call".

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Quickly-decrypting-cell-phone-calls-1048850.html

>
> How about the data sent by a tethered computer?
>
> Finally, how about a smart phone doing email using just plain POP? Could
> someone see a plaintext POP login password?
>

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the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally
corrupt."
Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749
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