Debugging the Greek wiretapping scandal
Matt Blaze
mab at crypto.com
Sat Jul 7 02:17:30 PDT 2007
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
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