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Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Mon Nov 1 15:44:42 2004
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:55:35 +0200
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
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On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:29:21AM -0700, James A. Donald wrote:
> Is there a phone that is programmable enough to store secrets=20
> on and sign and decrypt stuff?
Er, it has been a while since you bought a new mobile, right?
About all of them have several MBytes memory, and run Java. Some Motorolas
run Linux. The better smart phones are pretty beefy PDAs.
=20
> The ideal crypto device would be programmed by burning new=20
> proms, thus enabling easy reprogramming, while making it=20
> resistant to trojans and viruses.=20
The problem with modern mobiles that their security is of the cargo
cult/snake oil variety. Only a question of time before the first MMS worm
wipes out all Nokias, or something.
--=20
Eugen* Leitl <a href=3D"http://leitl.org">leitl</a>
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