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Researchers Intercepted T-Mobile Communications With $800 Equipment

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T-Mobile customers in remote areas had their phone calls and text messages broadcast through space without any protection, and researchers were able to listen in using basic equipment that cost less than a thousand dollars. A team from UC San Diego and the University of Maryland spent three years pointing a satellite dish at the sky and discovered that T-Mobile was sending customer communications over satellites without encryption. According to[read full article]