View Full Version : Cell Phone Spying Software
Ducky
09-03-2009, 01:31 AM
This is scary shit :shock:
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Ducky
09-03-2009, 01:39 AM
Is it possible for others to install software on our phones without us knowing?
Cogburn
09-03-2009, 02:49 AM
There's no commercial software out there that can monitor your cell phone without something being installed on it first, which requires the hacker to have physical possession of your phone at least one time.
torbjon
09-03-2009, 03:06 AM
key word being "commercial"
folks use their cells to surf the net... a couple of unwitting clicks by the rightful owner and malicious software is now installed.
pack3tg0st
09-03-2009, 10:02 AM
There's no commercial software out there that can monitor your cell phone without something being installed on it first, which requires the hacker to have physical possession of your phone at least one time.
hehe not so much anymore...
remember the text message exploit?
I'd have to experiment, but I imagine if you're on a wireless network, you might be able to exploit over ethernet... and thus, the internet...
Its just a miniature PC most of the time...
Wonder if Iphones have a built in firewall program...
Cogburn
09-03-2009, 02:12 PM
Here's where we go spiraling a bit off topic, but...
From what I can tell the problems with the iPhone are directly related to their closed ecosystem: Apple was childish enough to assume that no one would be able to violate their DRM schema. They pissed off a lot of opensource folks when Apple took opensource code, integrated it into the iPhone OS, and then wrapped it in a nice thick proprietary ecosystem.
Pissing off those super-smart IT geeks that wrote the code you installed into your operating system was probably not the wisest business move Apple has ever made. No surprise that "jailbreaking" originated in the opensource community as opposed to the consumer fan base as with most other devices.
S60, Android and WinMo don't suffer from the same liabilities because there is no assumption made of proprietary software protections; they are open platforms and as such gain the benefit of a non-adversarial middleware development community. The difference is in the incentive to fix holes like that as opposed to exploiting them.
For as brainy as the folks are over at Apple R&D... you can't help but notice that sometimes they just miss the boat.