The A5/1 encryption used to protect GSM phone conversations has long since been broken, actually just last year it was made possible to eavesdrop encrypted GSM in realtime – hence GSM telephony is today to be considered utterly insecure. Scientists have thus begun working on the 3G variant A5/3, and it would appear that a “breakthrough” has been made, not quite allowing for realtime decryption but weakening the cipher quite considerably.
Read the scientific repport here;
http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/013
Are your DNS settings configured for optimal performance? Don’t know? Well www.grc.comhas released a DNS Benchmarking utility that will not only test your configured DNS servers but also check a bunch of known DNS servers and thus provide you with a diagram of which servers perform best for you, along with this DNS servers are also tested for known security problems.
The tool is not ‘officially’ released as the documentation is not yet ready, but the tool is available for download and usage never the less;
http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm (please note the download link at the top does not work, use the one at the bottom “Download a copy to your computer“)
I have never really done much research in the field of Internet Radio, guess I have enough to occupy my mind elsewhere 😉 but I just stumbled across what seem to be a quite cool Internet Radio App and I just might give it a spin; it’s free, it’s easy/intuitive, it can record and it has a LOT of preset radio stations world wide.
Try it yourself, get it here;
http://www.screamer-radio.com/
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