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CCC Hackers Break DECT Telephones' Security 116

Sub Zero 992 writes "Heise Security (article in German) is reporting that at this year's Chaos Communications Congress (25C3) researchers in Europe's dedected.org group have published an article (PDF) showing, using a PC-Card costing only EUR 23, how to eavesdrop on DECT transmissions. There are hundreds of millions of terminals, ranging from telephones, to electronic payment terminals, to door openers, using the DECT standard." So far, the Heise article's German only, but I suspect will show up soon in English translation. Update: 12/30 21:27 GMT by T : Reader Juha-Matti Laurio writes with the story in English. Thanks!

Comment Re:Python FP (Score 1) 620

While imperative languages often have some functional aspects, they're not "pure." And functional programming is all about purity. :-) Just because I can do things like "map" in Ruby or python doesn't make the language functional. One problem that Python has as far as functional programming is that it doesn't optimize tail recursion. Which is very common in functional languages.

You should try to learn Haskell if you ever get a chance. I'm about 2 weeks into it and it is blowing my mind coming from Ruby and Python. Normally I can pick up languages pretty easily, but this.... this is just insane. It is like learning to program all over again. You aren't getting the full experience if you're just using a few functional aspects of a imperative language.

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