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Re:Palm Pre Privacy Invasion by lallysingh on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @07:56PM (#759618)
More interesting: is the transmission encrypted? Secured in any way other than "it's hard to sniff cell data?"

On another note, does anyone know if it's actually hard to sniff cell data? Could a well-hacked phone go promiscuous?

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Re:Palm Pre Privacy Invasion by eli on Thursday August 13, 2009 @11:42AM (#761011)
Both CDMA and GSM phones use encryption by default. It's not the strongest or best implemented encryption, but it makes it pretty tough. GSM is pretty tricky to demodulate even without encryption.
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