RE: Phone Switches + telephone banking etc

From: Kayne Ian (Softlab) (Ian.Kayneat_private)
Date: Mon Jun 10 2002 - 01:22:09 PDT

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    > Even with these technologies I am sure it could be cracked .. anything
    
    Yes, but this goes back to my previous point. I can only speak for the UK
    here, but if you're going to the trouble of getting equipment to crack/break
    these kind of transmissions between fone & base station, you've gone way
    past the opportunist attack - the lucky find on the baby monitor or the
    random scanning. At least in the UK you're better off just splicing into the
    phone line that comes out of most houses here (if you're on BT), or open the
    box in the road and break into that (if you're on cable). If you're going to
    this much trouble, you've got a specific target/purpose in mind.
    
    Ian Kayne
    Technical Specialist - IT Solutions
    Softlab Ltd - A BMW Company
    
    
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: ash [mailto:ashcrowat_private]
    > Sent: 09 June 2002 18:21
    > To: vuln-devat_private
    > Subject: RE: Phone Switches + telephone banking etc
    > 
    > 
    > Even if the phones are old they are still hot items being 
    > sold in stores
    > since they are pretty cheap and easily made. I know that both Best Buy
    > and Circuit City sell a nice amount of these phones every month.
    > 
    > (DECT == Digital european cellular phone) || (DEC == Digital Enhanced
    > Cordless Telecommunications)?
    > 
    > Even with these technologies I am sure it could be cracked .. anything
    > that sends out ant type of radio freq can be cracked .. it's just
    > probably harder.
    > 
    > Cheers,
    > Ash
    > 
    > On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 10:31, Gerrie wrote:
    > > DECT cordless phone are 'unbreakable'
    > > 
    > > The telephone you are referring to are very old, and why use them to
    > > crack telephone banking, while you can do far more interesting stuff
    > > with it, like making long distance phone calls, dial-up internet
    > > anonymously etc..
    > > 
    > > Gtx,
    > > Gerrie
    > 
    > 
    > 
    
    
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