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[The Tech Herald Security News] Adding to this he said that the projects aim is to raise awareness about the widespread use of GSM, and by proxy A5/1, which amounts for just over 80-percent of the mobile phone market, used in 200 countries the world over by almost 3 billion people, by starting a public debate over the present insecurity and how to make GSM more secure to a “…level where people are comfortable using cellular phones.”

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