The last thing I want is my mobile phone updating itself. I imagine that sort of operation would take up battery power, and possibly cause other interruptions ... (can you be on a call and have it update itself?)
Personally, I would prefer a phone that doesn't connect to the internet at all rather than a so called 'secure' phone. >From reading the article it seems like the application asks to be installed, (is that correct?) so it doesn't seem like that big of a problem [unless phones start to get into the 'trusted'/'non-trusted' application area..] -- Michael On Apr 6, 2005 4:50 AM, Kenneth R. van Wyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I noticed an interesting "article" about a mobile phone virus affecting > Symbian-based phones out on Slashdot today. It's an interesting read: > > http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/04/06/0049209.shtml?tid=220&tid=100&tid=193&tid=137 > > What particularly caught my attention was the sentence, "Will mobile OS > companies, like desktop OS makers, have to start an automatic update system, > or will the OS creators have to start making their software secure?" Apart > from the author implying that this is an "or" situation, it's something that > many of us have been saying for a very long time. (See my/Mark Graff's > related op-ed from over a year ago at: > http://www.securecoding.org/authors/oped/feb132004.php) > > Cheers, > > Ken van Wyk > -- > KRvW Associates, LLC > http://www.KRvW.com >
