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GSM Hacking: The next big thing?
By Jimmy Ray Purser
What IF someone took the time, built the gear and compiled the tables? Hmmm... That would be something. All I need to do is crack one segment and I can decode a full SMS message. The odds are on the hackers side in finding just one of 200 segment values in even an incomplete table. Read full story

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01/23/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. Bull castration and snake eaters: the life of Dave Hitz
  2. Apple puts iPhone Nano and Netbook rumors to rest
  3. Blogger: Obama to get 'super-encrypted' BlackBerry
  4. Court rules Kentucky does not own the Internet
  5. How to protect your PC against the Downadup worm
  6. Downadup worm now infects 1 in every 16 PCs
  7. Juniper expected to cut jobs amid weak demand
  8. US-CERT: Microsoft's advice on Downadup is flawed
  9. Nortel chief flying in corporate jet as company files for bankruptcy
  10. Windows 7: the untold story of how the enterprise gets snubbed


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