GSM & A5

Ian BROWN I.Brown at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Sun, 27 May 2001 16:19:45 +0100


>> >Read the words. I never mentions 'owner' nor even 'user'.
>> 
>> I read your argument, which was that mobile phones were 
>> inherently trackable. 
>> Wrong.
>
>How so? 

* Because the linkage between the transmissions of a given phone and its 
long-term identity can be easily hidden

* Because calls can be routed via intermediaries that hide source and 
destination from observers and especially home networks