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Re:India’s Downward Spiral by maxerickson on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @10:13AM (#8487407)
The tower can (unilaterally, probably without any notification on the handset) select "A5/0" as the encryption algorithm. That's no encryption.
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Re:India’s Downward Spiral by tormeh on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @10:20AM (#8487452)
Oh, ok, news to me, but it sounds plausible.

.... But, uh, why would the government require that, when they can just listen to the signal after it's been unencrypted at the base station?

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Re:India’s Downward Spiral by TheLoneWolfling on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @10:43AM (#8487563)
So that not even the people at the cell phone base station know just how absurdly much data they are pulling in.
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