Article 3G2W Mobile phones hacked: can the NSA and GCHQ listen to all our phone calls?

Mobile phones hacked: can the NSA and GCHQ listen to all our phone calls?

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Samuel Gibbs
from Technology | The Guardian on (#3G2W)

Snowden leak reveals that the US and UK security services hacked into servers and stole the access keys to billions of sim cards around the world

The latest revelations from the NSA files have shown that US and UK surveillance agencies could have the ability to listen in on billions of mobile phone calls from around the world. But how can they do that, and what does it mean for the general public? And should you be worried?

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