Researchers at the Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security at Germany’s Ruhr University Bochum have cracked the A5-GMR-1 and A5-GMR-2 encryption algorithms of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute.
The ETSI algorithms, which are used for satellite telephones, were breached within an hour.
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Mark Bridge writes:
I don’t mind paying for a spot of WiFi when I need it. Admittedly I’d prefer to find a coffee shop with a free hotspot but I’ll pay if I really need a connection. Not just here in the UK but abroad too.
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In this week’s podcast from The Fonecast we’re talking about Facebook’s stock market plans, Motorola’s legal battle with Apple, a handful of quarterly results and Google’s new app watchdog.
As usual, you can listen to the programme on our website audio player, via iTunes, by using our RSS feed or by downloading the MP3.
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Today is a quiet day at O2’s Slough headquarters.
Somewhere in the region of 3,000 UK employees are staying away from their desks and are working from home... or anywhere else they fancy. It’s described as the biggest flexible working initiative of its kind and involves a quarter of all O2 UK’s workforce.
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Nokia says it plans to move device assembly away from its factories in Komarom (Hungary), Reynosa (Mexico) and Salo (Finland).
It intends the three factories to focus on smartphone product customisation, while device assembly will to be transferred to Nokia factories in Asia.
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