Orr Dunkelman, Nathan Keller, and Adi Shamir have released a paper showing that they’ve broken KASUMI, the cipher used in encrypting 3G GSM communications. KASUMI is also known as A5/3, which is confusing because it’s only been a week since breaks on A5/1, a completely different cipher, were publicized. So if you’re wondering if this is [...]
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I was looking forward to trying out some in-flight wifi on my flight to E3 today. Sadly, I have personal reservations about paying $10 for an hour worth of internet. Why pay for internet when you can poke at their infrastructure for free? See. I knew you would see it my way. I wasn’t really interested in doing anything [...] So I caved and succumbed to the lameness of Twitter mostly for the purposes of attending and coordinating things at large events. It’ll be hard to flow of people and places at events like Defcon without it. Mostly I view twitter as a noise application. It posts “microblogging,” a term which people with near zero attention spans [...] Chris Soghoian made an interesting point in his recent cnet article entitled iPhone rules pose Net neutrality, antitrust concerns. My key point of interest here is the following: Apple’s, and to a degree AT&T, inclination to lock in customers is counter to the current direction of the market. Verizon is opening their cellular network and allowing Amazon [...] |
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