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"The problem is these problems aren’t easy to fix." Can't the Telcos just scan all SMS messages and filter out the ones that contain the malicious sequence of
by mixmax 16y ago
"The problem is these problems aren’t easy to fix."
Can't the Telcos just scan all SMS messages and filter out the ones that contain the malicious sequence of characters?
- blhack 16y agoI think the problem there is the word "just".
- gasull 16y agoI think the problem there is the word "just". I pay a lot of attention to how much a boss or a client uses the word "just". Be very afraid.
- nitrogen 16y agoCan't McAfee/TrendMicro/Microsoft just scan all Internet packets and filter out the ones that contain viruses? In seriousness, it's rarely just a simple sequence of characters. I'm unfamiliar with GSM/SMS data structures, but based on probable similarity with other systems, it could be anything from malformed headers to certain characters which aren't in the phone's character set and/or crash the font rendering system. Most phones probably have multiple vulnerabilities.
- krakensden 16y agoI would imagine the real problem is getting a blacklist that is comprehensive enough to be useful.