Sources: We were pressured to weaken the mobile security in the 80's

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The National Security Agency (NSA) breaks one of the encryption standards that are used to protect cell phones from eavesdropping. Encryption is like a mathematical lock that prevents hackers and others from opening the encrypted content. It is the A5/1-encryption standard which can be broken, a standard which is used by many cell phone users both in Norway and the rest of the world. Here is the story about how the A5/1-encryption standard is much weaker than it probably could have been.


Sources: We were pressured to weaken the mobile security in the 80's