[107199] in Cypherpunks
Re: Palm Phone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sunder)
Tue Jan 5 15:48:02 1999
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 15:33:17 -0500
From: Sunder <sunder@brainlink.com>
To: "Michael F. Reusch" <reusch@home.com>
CC: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Sunder <sunder@brainlink.com>
Big Brother concern: will someone who dials your Palm Phone be able to run
stuff remotely or access your data? We'd better make sure that they can't do
that.
The Palm is a 68000 Dragonball (not sure what speed, but it's not likely to
be more than 33Mhz) so accessing the audio stream might be slow... however,
if there's a built in "modem" it'll be a very useful PDA. OTOH, encryption
should be a bit slow, but okay on this since there are usually 68k asm
implementations of things like IDEA, DES, and such (possibly Blowfish too..)
* I say modem within quotes since the phone side of this is digital, so it
shouldn't need a Modulator Demodulator just to get data... Surfing or
reading email on this thing will be so cool.
"Michael F. Reusch" wrote:
>
> Looking at the PDQ smartphone at http://www.qualcomm.com/pdQ/index.html,
> the combo PalmPilot/CellPhone, is there any chance that software
> can manipulate the audio stream? Hmmm....
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