Re: Galileo codes cracked (Security by obscurity fails again)


Jan Panteltje wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/12/galileo_codes_cracked/


<quote>
"We were told that cracking the encryption of creative content, like
music or a movie, is illegal, but the encryption used by a navigation signal
is fair game,"
</quote>


BTW Galileo is the European 'GPS'.

So the term "Galileo" is polysemous?

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