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• Weekly Wrap 247: Attacked by car, leech, and diarrhoea

  01 March 2015 in Weekly Wrap

  My week of Monday 23 February to Sunday 1 March 2015 began with fatigue and ended with drama, and then more fatigue. The fatigue was inevitable, given that last weekend saw the production of two podcasts, as well as the first day of Tech Leaders Forum, which continued into Monday. What I wasn’t expecting was […]

• Talking Gemalto’s response to ‘hack’ on ABC Radio’s AM

  26 February 2015 in Conversations, Defence, Internet, Media, Politics, Privacy

  So SIM card manufacturer Gemalto has responded to the claims that America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ had hacked their network in 2010 and 2011 and stolen SIM card encryption keys. I spoke about that response on ABC Radio’s AM this morning. You can read Gemalto’s full press statement, but The Wall Street Journal has a […]

• Talking SIM cards, spooks and hacks on 1395 FIVEaa

  25 February 2015 in Conversations, Defence, Internet, Media, Politics, Privacy

  Third time’s the charm, right? My third radio spot on The Great SIM Heist was for 1395 FIVEaa in Adelaide on Wednesday afternoon. Again, I won’t repeat the background, because it’s all in my first post on the subject. But I will say that this is the most detailed conversation about it so far, because […]

• Talking SIM cards, spooks and hacks on 2UE

  25 February 2015 in Conversations, Defence, Internet, Media, Privacy

  The second radio spot I did on The Great SIM Heist — or perhaps I should say the claimed heist, or even the alleged heist — was for the Sydney talk radio station 2UE on Tuesday afternoon. I won’t repeat all the background. See my previous post for that. But I will say that it’s […]

• Talking SIM cards, spooks and hacks on The World Today

  25 February 2015 in Conversations, Defence, Internet, Media, Politics, Privacy

  On Friday, The Intercept published some astounding claims under the headline The Great SIM Heist: How spies stole the keys to the encryption castle. The story claims that Five Eyes spooks had achieved a major breakthrough in their ability to monitor mobile communications. American and British spies hacked into the internal computer network of the […]