Thread: NOKIA guinea pigs........
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2010-02-10 , 09:38
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Originally Posted by RevdKathy View Post
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that certain sorts of security were never going to possible on a device with an xterminal, because that's a gapping great hole though which you can do all sorts of things with your device, thereby compromising security.
scenario:

your friend borrows your phone for couple of minutes.

he installs rootsh, downloads a simple sh-script that is about couple kilobytes small. puts the script to cron for example (or to rcX.d to start it automatically every time device boots). now the script have about limitless possibilities for operation. for example forwarding your very secret emails to person x.

what does provisioning do with that? -nothing
what is provisioning for? -safety
whats the point putting provisioning into a device that lets any user execute anything with very little knowledge? -thought so....
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