Sources: We were pressured to weaken the mobile security in the 80's
January 10, 2014
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