[Ilugc] mobile security
- From: mail-lists@xxxxxxxxx (Karanbir Singh)
- Date: Sun Jun 15 03:20:41 2008
Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
I have a couple of questions about moblie security and its abuse, which I
hope you could answer.
1. How easy is it breaking into a mobile phone. What are the requistes for
hacking a phone( both the hacker and the victim)
Since most mobile phones run a proprietary OS or mostly a bug ridden
mess that runs over Java or something, we are going to have
trouble with attackers for sure.
Though the question remains how long it will take for threats to become
real.
Not sure what you mean by that.... there are plenty of bluetooth based
viri in the wild at the moment ( I 'collected' about 5 of them during my
visit to Delhi in Feb this year.. unfortunately I dont have that phone
with me anymore, or I'd be happy to share them )
7. What are the 'anti' softwares one can use to prevent hacking?
Such line of thinking does not exist in the linux world.
We don't have antivirus here.
Instead we do smart engineering to prevent/protect us against attacks.
Girish, again you seem to be contradicting yourself. I guess you mean by
'smart engineering' that we try to write better software and also to
build infrastructure to prevent such hack attacks ( eg. SElinux,
apparmour etc ). There is plenty of intrusion / cracking / malicious use
prevention software on Linux.
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