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Posts: 3 | Thanked: 2 times | Joined on Nov 2010
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First, thanks digitalvoid for writing this neat app. Unfortunately I had a pretty serious incident with it this afternoon that made me decide to uninstall it immediately and post this message of caution.

I had installed the app a couple of days ago and configured everything, worked great. It was great to watch a simple sms trigger a whole chain of events that ended up with a front cam pic in my mailbox.

So this afternoon I showed it to my colleague and asked him to send me the "Camera" text message. The program responded, but when I opened the phone, it asked for an access code. After a couple of tries, I found the one that worked, but in the mean time, my colleague was already getting text message after text message. In the end he probably received about 20 messages(!). IIRC the message he received again and again was something like "status message, phone closed".

So please all, beware that misconfigurations or bugs (in any app) can translate to serious loss of money when they happen on a phone. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'll only be charged for the 20 messages. Who knows how many the phone may have tried to send.

My advice would be to only use the app on a prepaid sim card until this bug (or something I did wrong?) is resolved. Of course, if there's anything I can do to help find the cause of what happened please let me know.
 

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