Tag Archives: security

Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs

October 11, 2007 – 1:39 pm

From Washington Post by Rick Weiss.
Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month.
“I heard someone say, ‘Oh my god, look at those,’ ” the college senior from New York recalled. “I look up and I’m like, ‘What the hell is that?’ They looked kind of like dragonflies or [...]

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How some Extremely Smart Hackers Pulled off the Most Audacious Cell-network Break-in

July 16, 2007 – 9:16 pm

From IEEE Spectrum.
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The base station’s activities are governed by a base station controller, a special-purpose computer within the station that allocates radio channels and helps coordinate handovers between the transceivers under its control.
This controller in turn communicates with a mobile switching center that takes phone calls and connects them to call recipients within the same [...]

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