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Always have an obscure old phone with almost no feature (except voice and text). Generally the OS is so minimal that there's little room for an exploit, and by
by shin_lao 15y ago
Always have an obscure old phone with almost no feature (except voice and text). Generally the OS is so minimal that there's little room for an exploit, and by little room I mean that you will not have enough memory to add your rootkit.
- eli 15y agoThe Motorola RAZR (and probably similar phones) have serious exploits and backdoors. See: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html
- ugh 15y agoYou hopefully also don't have any phone conversations or send any text messages you mind becoming public? GSM is thouroughly broken.
- ZoFreX 15y agoIf you're in the UK, take a phone with a Three sim card in it, they can't connect at all without 3G.
- arethuza 15y agoIs 3G really that much more secure than GSM? http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/013.pdf http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/013.pdf
- ZoFreX 15y agoFrom what I've been told, yes, but I could be utterly wrong.
- ugh 15y agoThat works for you, it won't work for everyone. UMTS and LTE don't have the capacity to replace GSM, not even close, they can barely keep up with the growth of additional demand. GSM is broken and here to stay for a long, long time.
- shin_lao 15y agoI don't really care about my phone conversations or text messages. If I need privacy I use other media. However I would mind being rootkited, as it could serve as an entry point to infect other systems.
- ay 15y agoObscure old phones are fairly trivially exploitable via SMS. Check the CCC presos from last December if you are interested. One link I readily found was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bkg3AjY6fs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bkg3AjY6fs but maybe there was more than one preso, I don't remember. If I were to go to this gathering, I'd go with a pen, paper, and a video camera.