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GSM A5/1 Encryption cracked.

January 6th, 2010

Ellinor Millshas an interesting interview with German security expert Karsten Nohl, who showed at the Chaos Communication Congress how easy is to eavesdrop GSM calls. Nohl says that GSM’s A5/1 encryption function uses a 64-bit key that is too short to withstand the computing power available today. When the algorithm was designed 20 years ago [...]

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GSM Mind control

May 8th, 2008

I was very much interested in reading – at ScientificAmerican.com (May 7,2008) – two different studies confirming that the use of mobile phones affect our brain waves. The study by the Brain Science Institute, Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia showed that, when a cell phone was transmitting, it boosts the alpha waves (8-12 [...]

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