Ashkan Soltani (who will be FTC’s new Chief Technologist) and Craig Timberg report:
Wireless carrier T-Mobile US has been quietly upgrading its network in a way that makes it harder for surveillance equipment to eavesdrop on calls and monitor texts, even on the company’s legacy system.
The upgrade involves switching to a new encryption standard, called A5/3, that is harder to crack than older forms of encryption.
Read more on Washington Post.