Re: the joys of GSM devices you don't control, part 6438
Don't forget similar problems with other handheld devices: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/17/2138213/Amazon-Pulls-Purchased-E-Book-Copies-of-1984-and-Animal-Farm Tom Yates wrote: i haven't seen any mention of this on here yet, and it came from the latest SANS newsbytes (v11 n56). it gave me a grin to think of yet another thing i don't have to worry about as an openmoko user, because my GSM device is entirely under my control, and i can inspect the source for everything i run, if i want to. --Blackberry Update Found to Contain Spyware (July 14, 2009) A United Arab Emirates service provider pushed out a BlackBerry update that contains spyware capable of intercepting users email and text messages and sending them back to the server. The performance-enhancement patch was sent as a WAP Push message to 100,000 users. Its spyware capabilities were discovered only after one user took a closer look at the update because it appeared to be draining the devices battery. The battery was being drained because the application was trying to register with a central server that became overwhelmed with the traffic, so the devices repeatedly tried to make contact. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/14/blackberry_snooping/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/blackberry-spies/ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: the joys of GSM devices you don't control, part 6438
2009/7/20 Andreas Fischer cyberf...@gmx.net Don't forget similar problems with other handheld devices: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/17/2138213/Amazon-Pulls-Purchased-E-Book-Copies-of-1984-and-Animal-Farm This is hilarious!!! 1984 and Animal Farm, what a coincidence :-) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
the joys of GSM devices you don't control, part 6438
i haven't seen any mention of this on here yet, and it came from the latest SANS newsbytes (v11 n56). it gave me a grin to think of yet another thing i don't have to worry about as an openmoko user, because my GSM device is entirely under my control, and i can inspect the source for everything i run, if i want to. --Blackberry Update Found to Contain Spyware (July 14, 2009) A United Arab Emirates service provider pushed out a BlackBerry update that contains spyware capable of intercepting users email and text messages and sending them back to the server. The performance-enhancement patch was sent as a WAP Push message to 100,000 users. Its spyware capabilities were discovered only after one user took a closer look at the update because it appeared to be draining the devices battery. The battery was being drained because the application was trying to register with a central server that became overwhelmed with the traffic, so the devices repeatedly tried to make contact. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/14/blackberry_snooping/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/blackberry-spies/ -- Tom Yates - http://www.teaparty.net ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: the joys of GSM devices you don't control, part 6438
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 08:17:03AM +0100, Tom Yates wrote: i haven't seen any mention of this on here yet, and it came from the latest SANS newsbytes (v11 n56). it gave me a grin to think of yet another thing i don't have to worry about as an openmoko user, because my GSM device is entirely under my control, and i can inspect the source for everything i run, if i want to. You mean the phone! Because the GSM firmware is, sadly, quite a blob :( Rui ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
