hah!
Blue-tooth is a seriously badly designed protocol, something along the lines of WiFi would be better, since it offers the ability to encrypt the data although, even that dosn't seem safe any more.
* hugs his Nokia 3330 (ie, Piece of crap) *
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hah!
Blue-tooth is a seriously badly designed protocol, something along the lines of WiFi would be better, since it offers the ability to encrypt the data although, even that dosn't seem safe any more.
* hugs his Nokia 3330 (ie, Piece of crap) *
lol, like anything on the IT Planet there are many configurations of Blue Tooth, from unlocking the door to securing it. Blue Tooth does have encryption for payload. Encrypting the funtion to find other devices, defeats the purpose of sharing information with the masses. On the other hand, if one buys a keyboard or headset that is automatically encrypted and power output reduced that brings in classes. There are 3 types, with standard power output and ranges for each. Cell phones are on average of about 30 feet when the system is active. In Security Mode 3 of 3, the bluetooth device will establish authentication measure before ever accepting a connection. In addition there are permanent and temporary keys that are 128 bit. Sure there are some weakness in Bluetooth just like in WEP but it's just not a open doorway, unless one goes out of the way to make it so, or blindly accepts link requests at rendom. But you will see the person or object making it in most cases.
You mean like users blindly clicking on e-mail attachments ;)Quote:
Cheers:
Yep
"HI, this is amazing.... click this file and world piece and love with drop into your life"
attach: Peace.exe
:D
FYI Symantec also makes an anitvirus program for handhelds, seems to be a pretty nifty program. You can read more about the corp edition at http://ses.symantec.com/products/pro...?productid=237
they also make a retail version which you can obviously get at a retail store ;)
hummm... AV/firewall for cell phone. Now there is a way to make money. Especially with some of the more recent cellphones. And could probably be programmed in java knowing most phone makers..
Road> yeah you have to accept, but how many people know that? We can still exploit the masses and take their money befor ethy realize it :)
lol... the thing is, what are you going to do? It's like hacking a calculator. :D
My calculator cannot phone some number but my phone can calculate ;-)
Seriously, what could you do when you infect a cellphone?
Is it possible to have it dial a number?
DoS a couple of faxes? (send an infinitly long black fax)
Upload another virus via UMTS/GPRS (Internet uplink)?
Read/forward/delete email?
I dunno. What are the possibilities?
make the phone call your zimbabwan registered 10 dollar a minute service
that'd be a cool get-rich-quick scheme...
I am with Jinx on this one. I think we are still a couple years off from any real nefarious acts towards mobile phones but when these things to come into mainstream I think it will be just like nocuous spam. They will be as Jinx said "get rich quick" schemes, or something along those lines. I just hope there are people as we speak preparing fro this inevitable situation.