News from the Chaos Computer Congress hits the New York Times. 28-year old computer engineer Karsten Nohl today announced "that he had deciphered and published the secret code used to encrypt most of the world's digital mobile phone calls, in what he called an attempt to expose weaknesses in the security of the world's wireless systems."
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GSM security defeated by German hacker: NYT on CCC
Trump campaign buys '$1M+ a day' YouTube election day masthead ads: Reports
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