… This idea is known as the “baseband apocalypse,” and it is nothing new. At last year’s Black Hat DC Conference, security researcher Ralf-Philipp Weinmann presented the vulnerabilityand warned that new open source tools for establishing mobile base stations will make smartphones easier to exploit than in the past, when the code for base stations was retained by [...]
Israel has agreed to arm India with cryptography and crypto-analysis know-how that will allow security establishment to intercept encrypted or coded messages and data transfers done through dedicated networks. As a first step, Tel Aviv-based RSA, part of technology major and multi-billion EMC proposes to set up a base in India to develop specialised solutions [...]
… at any time, and for no other cause than it wanting to do so, the Swedish Government can and will wiretap all your communications. They do so in bulk, and are restricted – if that is the appropriate word – to wiretapping no more than about two million households at a time. … Link [...]
… Earlier this week the American Civil Liberties Union revealed a trove of documents it had obtained through Freedom of Information Requests to more than 200 police departments around the country. They show a pattern of police tracking cell phone locations and gathering other data like call logs without warrants, using devices that impersonate cell towers to [...]
