Risky Business #164 -- FX on Blackberry security and wiretaps of the future
Fri, 08/20/2010 - 16:38
This week's guest is Felix "FX" Lindner. A well known researcher, FX has spent more than his fair share of time crawling around the innards of Blackberry devices.
He joins us this week to discuss the hubbub about lawful interception and Blackberry devices -- how resistant to wiretapping are they? What's the OS security like? What's the encryption scheme like?
As it turns out, the Blackberry holds up pretty well on most fronts, but FX fears law enforcement and intelligence agencies may start exploiting the baseband chipsets on mobile devices in order to intercept the data they carry.
Mon, 08/30/2010 - 11:51
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Yup, but with this baseband
Yup, but with this baseband chipset stuff you don't even need physical access -- it's all done over the air.
I guess no matter what you use, TrulyMail, PGP, GPG, etc. if someone has physical access to your computer (or phone) then it's hard to stop them from knowing what you're doing.