Reply to post: Re: This is only relevant if you use 2G

GPRS-era mobile data encryption algorithm GEA/1 was 'weak by design', still lingers in today's phones

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Re: This is only relevant if you use 2G

The problem is that the phones can usually be tricked into falling back to the unsafe encryption. We had this in a similar manner with web-servers. Those "fallback mechanisms" can often be triggered. Not few see this as part of the backdoor.

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