Vassilis Prevelakis and Diomidis Spinellis just published (in IEEE Spectrum) a terrific technical analysis of the recent Greek cellular eavesdropping scandal. It's available online at http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/5280 In 2005, it was reported that over a hundred Athens cellphones, mostly belonging to politicians (ranging from the mayor to the prime minister), were being illegally wiretapped. The culprit hasn't been found, but there's plenty of fodder for speculation, including mysteriously missing records, suspicious suicide, and, as Prevelakis and Spinellis point out, an intriguing technological mystery. The case dramatically illustrates the real-world risks of incorporating "lawful intercept" interfaces into network infrastructure; they become inviting targets for abuse. I comments further on my blog, at http://www.crypto.com/blog/hellenic_eavesdropping/ -matt ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE