Satellite Phone Encryption Cracked 54
New submitter The Mister Purple writes "A team of German researchers appears to have cracked the GMR-1 and GMR-2 encryption algorithms used by many (though not all) satellite phones. Anyone fancy putting a cluster together for a listening party? 'Mr. Driessen told The Telegraph that the equipment and software needed to intercept and decrypt satellite phone calls from hundreds of thousands of users would cost as little as $2,000. His demonstration system takes up to half an hour to decipher a call, but a more powerful computer would allow eavesdropping in real time, he said.'"
Re:sony's psn botnet (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, 'cause downloading bad movies is more fun with 9,6kbps over iRIDIUM....
It would probably be cheaper to make the movie than download it over iRIDIUM...