Sep 10, 2009
Sniffing DECT Phones with BackTrack
Sniffing DECT Phones with BackTrack
OffSec Team
BIG FAT HAIRY NOTE: IT IS ILLEGAL TO RECORD PHONE CONVERSATIONS IN MANY COUNTRIES. For a list of state privacy laws in the US, click here and here.
Thanks to 5m7x, dedected is soon to be added to the BackTrack repositories. In our internal tests, the standard AT&T cordless phone was found not to use encryption. The recording quality was phenomenal – you can find a copy of this recording here.
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