RE: Newbee ..- encrypted calls/SMS

2008-04-25 Thread Crane, Matthew
"unintelligble" that are favourable to the person being investigated). But I expect you're right, it's too difficult and not practical. Not compared with the alternatives. I like secure VOIP initiated from encrypted SMS. A wireless connection is always available in a big city. O

Re: Newbee ..- encrypted calls/SMS

2008-04-25 Thread Ian Stirling
Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: There are no simple voice transforms at all that will get through the codec, and actually encrypt. Voice changing is possible, but encryption is not. You _cannot_ - for example - exepect frequency inversion - to get through the codec chain. What about correlat

Re: Newbee ..- encrypted calls/SMS

2008-04-25 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
> There are no simple voice transforms at all that will get through the codec, > and actually encrypt. > Voice changing is possible, but encryption is not. > > You _cannot_ - for example - exepect frequency inversion - to get through > the codec chain. What about correlating (multiplying) the inpu

Re: Newbee ..- encrypted calls/SMS

2008-04-25 Thread Ian Stirling
Crane, Matthew wrote: Yes, I understand that, that is why I'm thinking of this approach. My idea was to use analog voice transforms and their inverse with properties that would preserve most of the codec performance. But it would be awfully difficult to sync up the inverse on the other end with

RE: Newbee ..- encrypted calls/SMS

2008-04-25 Thread Crane, Matthew
ction, I expect that with voice calls that delay can be added and removed without warning. But in terms of complexity and chance of success, it does seem like the encrypted SMS is both practical and feasible, compared to any sort of voice encryption. Maybe a composite solution? Secure voip se

Re: where The SMS message save?

2008-03-17 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: >>> UID:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Thanks... Just one thing: how is generated the UID data? >> It seems something like: >> UID:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Well, how is calculed what I called ${id}? > I have absolute

Re: where The SMS message save?

2008-03-16 Thread joerg
Am Mo 17. März 2008 schrieb Marco Trevisan (Treviño): > Andy Green wrote: > > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > > >> Do you have some examples to post? > >> Thanks! > > > > I didn't know any of this until Magnus said, but it seems it is like > > this, additional texts appear between

Re: where The SMS message save?

2008-03-16 Thread Ian Darwin
Thanks... Just one thing: how is generated the UID data? It seems something like: UID:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, how is calculated what I called ${id}? There is an official spec for the UUID format, or several variants of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuid Ian D _

Re: where The SMS message save?

2008-03-16 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Andy Green wrote: Somebody in the thread at some point said: Do you have some examples to post? Thanks! I didn't know any of this until Magnus said, but it seems it is like this, additional texts appear between additional BEGIN:VJOURNAL / END:VJOURNAL # cat /home/root/.evolution/memos/local/

Subject: Re: where The SMS message save?

2008-03-16 Thread Bobby Martin
> > Magnus Alvestad ha scritto: > > They are saved in evolution files in the root home directory. I don't > > remember the exact path, but it's something like: > > > > ~root/.evolution/memos/memos.evo > > Since When I'll have a freerunner I'd like to import my SMSs saved in my > actual mobile, I'd

Re: where The SMS message save?

2008-03-16 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: > Do you have some examples to post? > Thanks! I didn't know any of this until Magnus said, but it seems it is like this, additional texts appear between additional BEGIN:VJOURNAL / END:VJOURNAL # cat /home

Re: where The SMS message save?

2008-03-16 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Magnus Alvestad ha scritto: They are saved in evolution files in the root home directory. I don't remember the exact path, but it's something like: ~root/.evolution/memos/memos.evo Since When I'll have a freerunner I'd like to import my SMSs saved in my actual mobile, I'd like to know the ex

Re: where The SMS message save?

2008-03-16 Thread Magnus Alvestad
They are saved in evolution files in the root home directory. I don't remember the exact path, but it's something like: ~root/.evolution/memos/memos.evo -- Magnus Alvestad - Seniorkonsulent Webstep Mob: 982 98 004 - http://www.webstep.no Oslo - Bergen - Stavanger - Trondheim

where The SMS message save?

2008-03-14 Thread Xiangfu Liu
I use Neo1973 in China I can transcode from base64 to Chinese in this way i can read the chinese SMS i know the sms save at /home/root/Document/application/Qmail/mail In Qtopia but i don't know where the SMS mesage save In the OpenMoko -- my Blog : http://blog.chinaunix.net/u/

Re: How Alice and Bob got telephone/SMS spam on their Moko.

2008-02-26 Thread Tilman Baumann
Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: It is just one idea. I don't know how complicated it would be. (This would need the gsm driver to be in the kernel, but I assume it is.) It is not. *g* Receiving SMS is something the GSM unit makes almost autonomously. gsmd (the driver ;) )just read

Re: How Alice and Bob got telephone/SMS spam on their Moko.

2008-02-26 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
c we would block (SMS, calls, data) both incomming and outgoing (useful if someone borrows the phone). Of course it would need a little front-end, but that would be easy to make. By adding an iptables kernel module, we could have something that would be more than good enough for most of us. We would

Re: How Alice and Bob got telephone/SMS spam on their Moko.

2008-02-25 Thread ian douglas
er a call to specify spam/non-spam would be nice, but might get annoying for users too. Using a downloadable database of spammy phone numbers to block calls or SMS message from could get quite large. Plus you have to deal with users attempting to poison the database, such as the "M

Re: How Alice and Bob got telephone/SMS spam on their Moko.

2008-02-25 Thread Tilman Baumann
ian douglas wrote: Tilman Baumann wrote: In my eyes, trust should be calculated automaticly, not by manually defining trust (like pgp). Using the system could improve it. Perhaps number of successful phone calls, and length of phone call to add a number of trust 'points' ... the more successf

Re: How Alice and Bob got telephone/SMS spam on their Moko.

2008-02-25 Thread ian douglas
Tilman Baumann wrote: In my eyes, trust should be calculated automaticly, not by manually defining trust (like pgp). Using the system could improve it. Perhaps number of successful phone calls, and length of phone call to add a number of trust 'points' ... the more successful calls over some

Re: How Alice and Bob got telephone/SMS spam on their Moko.

2008-02-25 Thread Shawn Rutledge
you still need your own defense because they obviously are getting away with it, for a while at least; or they don't know that it's a cell. But in practice I don't really get telemarketing calls on my cell, and nowadays seldom get them at home. I have gotten SMS spam though. I guess

Re: How Alice and Bob got telephone/SMS spam on their Moko.

2008-02-25 Thread Tilman Baumann
relations for my spam filter... And by the way. Spamassassin (or better something 'lighter') for sms sounds like a really really good idea... Just my 2 Eurocents Tilman PS: This calls for a interception API on the phone. Fighting spam would not be the only thing that

Re: How Alice and Bob got telephone/SMS spam on their Moko.

2008-02-25 Thread Joseph Booker
for military or frat recruiters who regretfully obtained the number legitimately would be pretty nice though. SMS spam is one thing, but I'd wager individual blocking for calls is more useful then block lists. -- Joseph Jon Booker signature.asc Description: PGP signature _

Re: How Alice and Bob got telephone/SMS spam on their Moko.

2008-02-25 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Heikki Sørum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > from Matilda in Canned Meat Marketing. Matilda has created an software > system that automates calling and displays a unknown caller ID, then ... > 3rd party ruggedized Moko Case!) he tags the calling ID with "Deceptive >

Re: How Alice and Bob got telephone/SMS spam on their Moko.

2008-02-25 Thread Antoine Reid
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Steven Kurylo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Heikki Sørum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi everyone! Today I got another proposal for useful > > applications that would make an open mobile outshine > > "oldsch00l" mobiles. > > Wh

Re: How Alice and Bob got telephone/SMS spam on their Moko.

2008-02-25 Thread kenneth marken
On Monday 25 February 2008 22:39:04 ian douglas wrote: > Being able to do this within OpenMoko would be pretty slick too, though > you won't really gain anything by marking SMS messages as spam -- you're > still paying for the incoming message whether to tag it as spam or not

Re: How Alice and Bob got telephone/SMS spam on their Moko.

2008-02-25 Thread Steven Kurylo
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Heikki Sørum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone! Today I got another proposal for useful > applications that would make an open mobile outshine > "oldsch00l" mobiles. While I've never thought of taking it that far, this is one of the prime reasons I will be

Re: How Alice and Bob got telephone/SMS spam on their Moko.

2008-02-25 Thread ian douglas
Heikki Sørum wrote: In my ideal world: Alice gets a OpenMoko, and then starts getting annoying calls from Peach Corporation that would like to sell here an Peach M-Phone. As Alice dislikes Peach Corporation, she tags any sms/mms and caller ID's with a "Marketing Call" tag. One

How Alice and Bob got telephone/SMS spam on their Moko.

2008-02-25 Thread Heikki Sørum
Hi everyone! Today I got another proposal for useful applications that would make an open mobile outshine "oldsch00l" mobiles. The leader of the Norwegian EFF chapter posted som days in frustration a question whether there was any kind of blacklisting/spam filtering capabiliti

Re: SMS is required + fix for battery drained isse (was: 2007.11 snapshot available)

2007-12-06 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On Dec 5, 2007 2:25 AM, Thomas Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The latest snapshot includes the first alpha version of the Messages > application which allows you to send and receive SMS messages. That's good news! > I can confirm that GTA02 fixes this - you do not even nee

Re: SMS is required

2007-12-06 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
I did not know they charge you extra for SMS in the US, since SMS is the data transfers that happens between pressing the 'call' button and the connection to the other phone (actually SMS was a hack found out by Nokia people back in the '90's) It was part of the GSM sta

Re: SMS is required

2007-12-06 Thread Casper van Donderen
I did not know they charge you extra for SMS in the US, since SMS is the data transfers that happens between pressing the 'call' button and the connection to the other phone (actually SMS was a hack found out by Nokia people back in the '90's) But over here in the Netherland

Re: SMS is required + fix for battery drained isse

2007-12-05 Thread Shawn Rutledge
the average European > >>> mobile phone user a part of "mass", then you are wrong and yes, text > >>> text messaging (SMS) is an absolute requirement for European mobile > >>> > >> > >> Plenty of people use SMS in the US too, especia

Re: SMS is required + fix for battery drained isse (was: 2007.11 snapshot available)

2007-12-05 Thread Thomas Wood
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 01:45 +0100, Bernhard Kaindl wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Jon Phillips wrote: [...] > > So can we __please__ put the thought of text messaging (SMS) being > optional for mass __usage__ (not resting, as it's now) to rest now? > > Of course it's

Re: SMS is required + fix for battery drained isse

2007-12-04 Thread flexd
Richard Reichenbacher wrote: Shawn Rutledge wrote: On Dec 4, 2007 5:45 PM, Bernhard Kaindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe it is enough for the US, but if you define the average European mobile phone user a part of "mass", then you are wrong and yes, text text messaging (SMS

Re: SMS is required + fix for battery drained isse

2007-12-04 Thread Richard Reichenbacher
Shawn Rutledge wrote: On Dec 4, 2007 5:45 PM, Bernhard Kaindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe it is enough for the US, but if you define the average European mobile phone user a part of "mass", then you are wrong and yes, text text messaging (SMS) is an absolute requirem

Re: SMS is required + fix for battery drained isse (was: 2007.11 snapshot available)

2007-12-04 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On Dec 4, 2007 5:45 PM, Bernhard Kaindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe it is enough for the US, but if you define the average European > mobile phone user a part of "mass", then you are wrong and yes, text > text messaging (SMS) is an absolute requirement for European

SMS is required + fix for battery drained isse (was: 2007.11 snapshot available)

2007-12-04 Thread Bernhard Kaindl
mobile phone user a part of "mass", then you are wrong and yes, text text messaging (SMS) is an absolute requirement for European mobile phone users. While some die-hard developers (even European ones) may consider SMS an obsolete concept which was there before email over GPRS was possi

Re: Feature request -- SMS spam blocking?

2007-10-25 Thread Doug Sutherland
Regarding SMS, a few basic comments on how it works ... First, there is a message service center address, that is the link to the provider and is set with the +CSCA command. The device (phone) can be set to allow originations (send), terminations (receive) and broadcast type messages, set with

Feature request -- SMS spam blocking?

2007-10-25 Thread Derek Pressnall
Question about how SMS messages work. Does the software stack have to perform a a seperate action to retrieve an inbound sms message, or is the message text actually part of the alert from the gsm chip? If a seperate action has to be taken to retrieve the sms message, then do the phone carriers

Re: GPS+sms apps

2007-05-29 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 10-15c/SMS => that's about 60-90c per KB. Or 600-900$ per MB. Don't think that GPRS is THAT expensive even in Canada. Andreas Crane, Matthew wrote: > Ok, yea, they aren't often free, but they are often free to send even > w

RE: GPS+sms apps

2007-05-29 Thread Crane, Matthew
reference, Canadian $ getting closet to parity with USD lately. Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mikko J Rauhala Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:56 AM To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: RE: GPS+sms apps On ti, 2007-05-29 at 0

RE: GPS+sms apps

2007-05-29 Thread Mikko J Rauhala
On ti, 2007-05-29 at 09:15 -0400, Crane, Matthew wrote: > I guess SMS is generally more accessable and tends to be a lot cheaper, > often free, in Toronto and most of Canada. I didn't know SMS are often free; here they cost a bundle, though a bit less if you take a bulk deal in your m

Re: GPS+sms apps

2007-05-29 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, it's a general problem. Depending upon your phone plan, using SMS might make sense or not. If SMS are free, that's nice, although I doubt you'll manage to run a ppp session with mtu 150 over it :-P Generically speaking, SMS are

RE: GPS+sms apps

2007-05-29 Thread Crane, Matthew
I guess SMS is generally more accessable and tends to be a lot cheaper, often free, in Toronto and most of Canada. Phones could transmit position continuously to a central server, or some centralized mechanisim, and I'm thinking it would be much easier for a centralized server program to n

Re: GPS+sms apps

2007-05-28 Thread Brad Midgley
You don't need GPS for that. It's a quite simple Python script (without GUI certainly less than 10 lines) for PyS60 (Symbian S60), that checks the GSM/UMTS cell info, and sends a SMS to your wife if you enter a specific cell ("I'll be home in 15 minutes" or "I'm ne

Re: GPS+sms apps

2007-05-28 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You don't need GPS for that. It's a quite simple Python script (without GUI certainly less than 10 lines) for PyS60 (Symbian S60), that checks the GSM/UMTS cell info, and sends a SMS to your wife if you enter a specific cell ("I&#

RE: GPS+sms apps

2007-05-28 Thread Dean Collins
Why would you need SMS - if you are running a data plan already to track cell tower and relative position to other Neo users then you may as well make it a self contained application. Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From:

GPS+sms apps

2007-05-28 Thread Crane, Matthew
Is there any existing application which combine sms messaging and GPS? It would be pretty cool to get automated alerts whenever a particular person is nearby, through a central machine (phone, desktop). Or to use some sort of automated homing application, where two people are able to lock to

Re: Compressed SMS (and other text messages)

2007-03-25 Thread kenneth marken
SMS is lost. iirc, thats how mms works. it sends a special kind of sms that a mms enabled device will pick up on. said sms points to a wap server that hands out the mms to the phone. at least thats my experience when getting a mms on a "very" old phone. another option is that if a

Re: Compressed SMS (and other text messages)

2007-03-25 Thread Tehn Yit Chin
One of the things that I have just received recently is that, somehow, the network detected that I had a phone that was not able to receive a MMS. It just sent me a text message with a web address in it to retrieve it. This implementation is not too good as it immediacy of SMS is lost. Can the

Re: Compressed SMS (and other text messages)

2007-03-22 Thread Jeff Andros
On 3/22/07, Ian Stirling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andreas Kostyrka wrote: > * Jonathon Suggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070321 22:58]: >> Andreas Kostyrka wrote: >> My challenge is just to think bigger. Think how this could be incorporated to work with *any* phone. Then you can have a much larg

Re: Compressed SMS (and other text messages)

2007-03-22 Thread Ian Stirling
ble to tune it. First, I'm not a SMS user (I use email.), so you can take this comment for whatever its worth. This is just a very general statement, but I personally think that designing features that will only work with other OpenMoko phones is a bad idea. Yes, there are some idea

Re: Compressed SMS (and other text messages)

2007-03-22 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
;more often would be able to tune it. > > > First, I'm not a SMS user (I use email.), so you can take this comment for > whatever its worth. > > This is just a very general statement, but I personally think that designing > features that will only work with other OpenMoko

Re: Compressed SMS (and other text messages)

2007-03-21 Thread Tim Newsom
st of ideas. Sorry if I completely missed the point. So one approach might be to investigate the java implementation on other phones and see if you can gain access to sms for receiving and sending messages. Then you could write it to test the waters on openmoko.. Then build a java version f

Re: Compressed SMS (and other text messages)

2007-03-21 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
attle fighting uphill isn't the best of ideas. I agree, instead of using a non standard SMS format, you better simply go the Jabber/$IM_OF_CHOICE route for which there are Java client's that would run on 100s of million cell phones right now. To make matters worse, it's not rea

Re: Compressed SMS (and other text messages)

2007-03-21 Thread Jonathon Suggs
Andreas Kostyrka wrote: ...plus probably a system that would automatically upload/download moko-ness information. This way all mokos could keep in touch, and people that switch phones more often would be able to tune it. First, I'm not a SMS user (I use email.), so you can take

Re: Compressed SMS (and other text messages)

2007-03-21 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Mikko Rauhala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070321 01:40]: > 'lo > > Didn't appear in the wiki, so I figured I'd throw it out there first: > compressed SMS for when a persistent TLS-encrypted and -compressed > Jabber connection just isn't there (eg. if it would

Re: Compressed SMS (and other text messages)

2007-03-20 Thread Ian Stirling
Mikko Rauhala wrote: 'lo Didn't appear in the wiki, so I figured I'd throw it out there first: compressed SMS for when a persistent TLS-encrypted and -compressed Jabber connection just isn't there (eg. if it would be too expensive in a particular locale), but you need

Compressed SMS (and other text messages)

2007-03-20 Thread Mikko Rauhala
'lo Didn't appear in the wiki, so I figured I'd throw it out there first: compressed SMS for when a persistent TLS-encrypted and -compressed Jabber connection just isn't there (eg. if it would be too expensive in a particular locale), but you need to send "long" text

Re: ideas with SMS

2006-12-07 Thread Robert Michel
go. So sometimes it happens that I see them in the same train - but even when we use the same train, sometimes only at the end of the trip... So when I enter the date and time when I will use the train, someone will join... It was just an example how the Neo1973 could serve others information reque

RE: ideas with SMS

2006-12-07 Thread Stuart Gray
it on the screen would solve that problem. --Organising-- Ways to organise your SMS inbox similar to email, so you could filter certain contacts sms into the Work folder for example and others to Personal --Stats-- A stats sheet that gives you a summary of your texting habits, like telling you wh

Jabber is another topic, good for an own thread ; ) Re: ideas with SMS

2006-12-07 Thread Robert Michel
s feature with others. > > Why not go all the way and use Jabber instead? Surely that should be cheaper > than the ripoff prices for SMS we usually see... Of course, Jabber will be a topic, and the Jabber protocoll will be a posibility to chare "accessable status information" &

Re: ideas with SMS

2006-12-07 Thread Richard Franks
your day-to-day info in such detail 2) How to logically secure access to that information once it is present This goes a bit beyond the medium (SMS) and into the mechanism (???). The latter interests me more as assuming you have this information available to SMS, you have it available for any other

Re: ideas with SMS

2006-12-07 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
Dnia czwartek, 7 grudnia 2006 19:44, Gabriel Ambuehl napisał: > Why not go all the way and use Jabber instead? Surely that should be > cheaper than the ripoff prices for SMS we usually see... As long as phone will be able to keep GPRS session connected all the time it could be good. I p

Re: ideas with SMS

2006-12-07 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
he ripoff prices for SMS we usually see... pgpZbYMb2ib2i.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: ideas with SMS

2006-12-07 Thread Robert Michel
Salve! Oh I missed the idea that I like most "encrpyted SMS" - I already thought to start to do it with J2ME just charing 1 MB random data with a friend/partner/parents and add the first 160 chars to the first SMS, the second 160 chars to the second With Neo1973 to Neo1973 it wo

ideas with SMS

2006-12-07 Thread Robert Michel
x27;m realistic that most of this ideas would be only for next and after, after next hardware generation or only for selfmade hardware hacks. Comming back to the potential of the Neo1973 just with GNU/Linux on the SoC and GSM/GPRS and AGPS - something nearly every phone has SMS. IMHO SMS has much

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