Breaking GSM Security With a $15 Phone
Whatever assurances have been given about the security of GSM cellphone calls, forget about them now. Speaking at the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Congress here today, a pair of researchers demonstrated a start-to-finish means of eavesdropping on encrypted GSM cellphone calls and text messages, using only four sub-$15 telephones as network “sniffers,” a laptop computer…
Kinect Hacked to Play World of Warcraft
Kinect hacks are coming thick and fast, but here is one that will set millions of PC gamers’ hearts a-flutter: A hack that lets you gesture control a game of World of Warcraft. The tech is coming from the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies, where a team has built a toolkit, dubbed…
Use These 8 Apps To Ditch Your Expensive Texting Plan
With bloated fees for everything on your cell phone carrier, it’s easy to get frustrated when you or someone on your family plan goes over your text message limit. To combat this, app developers have taken advantage of mobile broadband access to bring free texting to your smartphone. And they’re not-surprisingly some of the most…
The Best Explanations of the Year
We learned a lot this year; from the origins of liquimetal and toasted thighs to the technical reasoning of ISO and CDMA. Check out the best explanations Gizmodo had to offer in 2010. 1. Why Apple’s iPhone 4 Update Won’t Fix Your Reception Problem – July 2nd This graphic shows why some people experience the…