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Security issues with LTE air interface

Is the LTE air interface inherently less secure than GSM and WCDMA? Has it been deliberately made less secure in 3GPP to allow snooping?

It is not less secure than

It is not less secure than predecessors and have better security architecture than GSM or WCDMA.

See http://lteworld.org/blog/lte-security-principles