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Not as good of a way as it would be with a modern phone. You'd basically have to find a bug in the HTML or image parsing/rendering. As I remember it, that devic
by khedoros 10y ago
Not as good of a way as it would be with a modern phone. You'd basically have to find a bug in the HTML or image parsing/rendering. As I remember it, that device didn't support cookies, javascript, plugins, etc. And honestly, hacking into mobile devices over an internet connection wasn't really part of the zeitgeist at the time. That mostly came later, when people stored more than some SMS, MIDI ringtones, and some phone numbers.
- astrange 10y ago> You'd basically have to find a bug in the HTML or image parsing/rendering. Like this one? https://www.rapid7.com/db/vulnerabilities/mfsa2010-41-remote-codex-using-malformed-png-image https://www.rapid7.com/db/vulnerabilities/mfsa2010-41-remote... Opera Mini or a pure-JavaME browser would be safe, but just having an image decoder is too much to expose to whole internet.
- khedoros 10y agoSure, if it was found for whichever library code was used on that device, and if you also found a way to use it to get the OS to expose data that it usually wouldn't. I'm not saying that someone couldn't work out a way to exploit that phone, I'm saying that it's not going to happen because there's no point (and also wouldn't have been one while I was still using it). As a practical concern, I'm more worried about my phone now (an up-to-date Android) than I am about any feature phone, including recently-released ones.