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Re: Is there any future for smartcards?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Tue Sep 13 09:23:42 2005
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From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:52:27 -0700
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From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
> Virtually all new phones sold are smartphones, and for
> every platform there are documented vulnerabilities,
> exploits, and malware already in the wild. Increased
> use of mobile phones as means of payment are a strong
> motivation for malware writers. Most of smartphone
> users are security-naive teenagers. This indicates
> that we'll be getting all [the] problems with desktop
> machines, and more, shortly.
Typical worm installation goes like this:
: : Receive message via bluetooth from unnamed
: : device? Y/N
: :
: : Installation Security warning: Unable to
: : verify supplier. Continue anyway? Y/N
Seems to me that the phone designers have done a better
job with virus, worm, and malware resistance than
Microsoft or Linux. Teenagers are pretty sophisticated.
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