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> To me, this absolutely feels like a NOBUS vulnerability, if the SIM manufacturers and/or core network equipment vendors are in cahoots with the NSA and let th
by Narkov 2y ago
> To me, this absolutely feels like a NOBUS vulnerability, if the SIM manufacturers and/or core network equipment vendors are in cahoots with the NSA and let the NSA take those keys, they can potentially listen in on all mobile phone traffic in the world.
This feels like the obligatory XKCD comic[1] when in reality there isn't any secretive key extraction or cracking...things are just sent unencrypted from deeper into the network to the three-letter-agencies. Telco's are well known to have interconnect rooms with agencies.
[1] https://xkcd.com/538/ https://xkcd.com/538/
- bayindirh 2y ago> Telco's are well known to have interconnect rooms with agencies. Maybe these connections are a requirement for their permits in the first place. Who knows?
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- amiga386 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_of_NSA_surveillance_requests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_of_NSA_surveilla... Not a requirement, but if for some reason you don't do the Right Thing that the NSA wants, oh dear your CEO goes to jail, he was a bad boy, look at all that insider trading. You'll do the Right Thing next time we ask, capiche? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
- LargoLasskhyfv 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_Complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_Complex in Germany. Right next to the former https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttechnisches_Zentralamt https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttechnisches_Zentralamt and https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernmeldetechnisches_Zentralamt https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernmeldetechnisches_Zentralam... (similar to Bell Central Office/HQ) hosting the Deutsche Telekoms early NOC and CIX. There are also endless ramblings of some german blogger about how he has been sabotaged at the University of Karlsruhe, regarding very early development of encrypted digital telephony and data-transfer in the 80ies/90ies, by very incompetent and corrupted professors, connected to this. Also related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rubicon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rubicon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximator_(intelligence_alliance) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximator_(intelligence_allian... We're all friends, listening in on the party line :>