The meteoric rise in the smartphone market is creating a dangerous vulnerability in smartphone security. The problem may not be patched until the problem expands into what has been dubbed an “apocalypse” The situation is similar to the PC boom of the late 1990s, a technologist says. The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) standard for 3G cellphones still employs the A5/1 encryption algorithm, which Auerbach says is “incredibly broken” The faster smartphones are developed and pushed out to market, the more money companies like Qualcomm and Apple stand to make.”]
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