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2004 Gold Nugget Award Winner Named

SUMMARY

An agency expert on GSM technology exploitation won the Gold Nugget Award for achievement in the field of traffic analysis. The analyst was the first to identify and read GSM text messages via Signaling System No. 7. Previously, he exploited prepaid calling cards and helped begin to extract “cellular prepaid validation metadata.”

DOCUMENT’S DATE

Oct 12, 2005

PUBLICLY AVAILABLE

Mar 01, 2018