Hi Alex
I have followed your steps.
Now what?
I can see network, flash disk, s d card and so on.
Apologies if I'm missing something!
Peter

----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Hall <[email protected]
To: Sabahattin Gucukoglu<[email protected]
Date sent: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 21:03:00 -0400
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Warning: BrailleNote Apex Offers Read/Write FTPAndTelnet Access To All Comers

This is crazy!!
1.  Connect to a wifi network on an Apex (someone with an mpower,
please try this as well).
2. Go to options > connectivity > active connection details and space
down to the "ip address" item.  Note this address.
3.  On any computer, including the bn, go to:
fpt://a.b.c.d
where a.b.c.d is the ip you noted earlier.
4. You can see the contents of any drive available on the bn (though some drives have an odd timestamp), and download anything you want. This means that anyone could do the same and you would never know it!! On the bright side, it does let you save the bn as a folder in Windows (on a pc) and manage files on the bn that way, eliminating the need for activeSync; just copy a file from your pc and paste it into the virtual folder you set up. Of course, if you are using dhcp, you will have to specify the ip each time the bn re-connects, but it is quite convenient. Still, as nice as it is, it is a massive security risk. The best way to avoid this is to not use wifi anywhere you do not feel secure, such as at home. This is an impractacle solution, though. Your
only other hope is to keep everything in .kwb (keyword braille)
formatted files, since these files are difficult, if not impossible, to read without a bn. Thanks to the OP for discovering this; I am off to email hw, and I recommend that anyone else who understands this message do the same. Basically, the bn can be remotely accessed by anyone and files moved to or from it, and you will never know. Again, you can use this to your advantage to move files to and from the bn and the pc over wifi, which would be a great feature if it were made
secure.

On 10/1/10, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2 Oct 2010, at 00:12, olivia wrote:
How can you access telnet on the apex? Thanks!

BrailleNote doesn't have a telnet or other remote client (but it should). Unfortunately, the telnet server is running, and listening by default, so just connect with any telnet client. (If you do not know how to do this, you probably have no need to. It gives you access to a command-line
interface (cmd.exe).

Cheers,
Sabahattin

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