Researchers discover a flaw that could let anyone listen to your cell calls

[LiteCoinGuy]

German researchers discover a flaw that could let anyone listen to your cell calls

German researchers have discovered security flaws that could let hackers, spies and criminals listen to private phone calls and intercept text messages on a potentially massive scale – even when cellular networks are using the most advanced encryption now available.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/12/18/german-researchers-discover-a-flaw-that-could-let-anyone-listen-to-your-cell-calls-and-read-your-texts/

[TECSHARE]

I miss the 90's when you could listen to drug dealers and cheating wives on their cell phones with a scanner from Radio Shack. Believe it or not it is (was?) perfectly legal (as long as you don't record it or tell other people what you have heard). So many bored summer hours burnt with that scanner 

[Spendulus]

I miss the 90's when you could listen to drug dealers and cheating wives on their cell phones with a scanner from Radio Shack. Believe it or not it is (was?) perfectly legal (as long as you don't record it or tell other people what you have heard). So many bored summer hours burnt with that scanner 

Well, I've got some nine trillion cells, and I don't want people listening to them.  And that's not counting the trillions in my dog.

[Slowturtleinc]

Miss those days of sticking a paperclip in the headset for free phone calls.
Not a big shocker to find this out, might be profitable to go sit in the economic sector of the city to get some dirt.

[Hirose UK]

wow, there will be not secret any longer if this flaw is known by hackers.

so what can we do to be safe calling someone else?