Posts by Mookster

US government fines Intel's Wind River over crypto exports

Mobile Phones, SIM cards, ...?

Huawei buys Cambridge Internet of Things pioneer Neul

It's rather niggardly to claim that anything above 0 is not success.

(Indeed, being bought, at any price, is usually a good thing for the founders)

esc, cos that's what it is...

Time to ditch HTTP – govt malware injection kit thrust into spotlight

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protocol

It's time for PGP to die, says ... no, not the NSA – a US crypto prof

Re: Quick precis.

Na, the crypto is easy - a few hundred lines of code with the right libs. UI is probably 10 times that

Today's bugs have BRANDS? Be still my bleeding heart [logo]

Re: And another thing...

Utter Bollox... How else do youy get TRUE and FALSE in C?

Also can be a convenient way for the pre-compiler to do the tedious work of determining which byte you need to write to GPIO. Besides, you can always look at the output of the pre-processor..

Reg probe bombshell: How we HACKED mobile voicemail without a PIN

Don't you mean the "A" number?

Can't you just call a spade a spade? What you did is A-number spoofing. CLI is a bit different...

(your old-person call-center redirect example just about shows it)

So, just how do you say 'the mutt's nuts' in French?

Na, I'd go with: "Koiran Munat"

(Although "Munat" is eggs, you'd get some very funny looks if you went into a shop and asked for them)

Samsung Galaxy S5 fingerprint scanner hacked in just 4 DAYS

Most fingerprint scanners have this problem - that's why they're only used under supervision e.g. border control.

Paris, cos she likes unsupervised fingering

Scotland to test mobe signals slammer jammer

Not very Ambitious

Wouldn't it be easier just to deploy one of those fake base-stations? They could then listen in...

HTC: Shipping Android updates is harder than you think – here's why

except that the silicon vendor's drivers are "examples" i.e. sh!te

In my experience of silicon vendor's drivers, they're a freebe that *just* work. Better to re-write them, removing 5 layers of empty API.

-Mook

Apple patents facial recognition tech for mobile log-in

NEC have had this for over 10 years...

Singaporean finn-off 'Newkia' readies Android phones

Re: Troubles

'cept that the world will pronounce it Uskia instead of ooze-kee-ah. Minä en Usko.

Google tries putting an NFC ring on it: Bonking will keep you SAFE

So what makes you think it's an OTP

https://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/gnubby

Holiday HELL: Pourquoi, monsieur, why is there no merdique Wi-Fi here?

All the crappy hotel chains in France (Ibis, Best Western, ... ) have free Wif-fi for guests.

'World's BIGGEST online fraud': Suspect's phone had 'location' switched on

300 million from 160 million cards. That's only 2 bucks a pop (give or take). Now 10 dollars for each would be more like it..

Paris - doesn't get out of (or was that into) bed for that money

'It's GOOD we stopped selling the iPhone'

yes. but "vituun vittu" may be more common.

Vittu => Cnut (but Finn's use it like Fcuk is used in English)

Vittupää => CnutHead

Perklele = The Devil (instead of saying oh damn, Finns say Voi Perkele)

Perkeleen = The Devil's ...

Mobe SIM crypto hijack threatens millions: Here's HOW IT WORKS

the numpty with the SIM tattoo?

Another disappointing article.

OK. If you get the network key, you might just about manage to impersonate the SIM (if you also get the IMSI).

Unfortunately, you can't change the SIMs OS - it's in the MASK.

Now Global Platform allows you to modify applets on the SIM, install new ones, etc,

- but the keys are different (SCP02)

- it's only NFC SIM cards - which are nice and new

Finally, Roaming list updates are protected by 03.48 - again different to the network key.

Could the Reg not find someone with a clue to right about these things???

Not all data encryption is created equal

Re: Show me the backdoor

it's in the random number generator that's used to make your key...

'I can’t believe Jobs made the statement … Incredibly stupid'

I thought that those working in security only wore tin-foil hats.

BBC boffins ponder abstruse Ikea-style way of transmitting telly

Digital Teletext already uses this

Digital Teletext already uses MPEG2-DSMCC where the pages, pictures etc are transmitted on an "Object Carousel" so, this article is only 15 years late..

-Mook

Operators look on in horror as Facebook takes mobe users Home

Smartcard Web Server

"The SIM is the operators' natural home, but only the most fanatical would expect to run a replacement skin from there. The GSM SIM is best considered an entirely separate computer, connected to the handset over a 9600 baud serial connection, and can no more control the user experience than it can fly a 747, though that didn't stop France Telecom trying the idea with Orange Homescreen back in 2007."

Smartcard Web Server, with the USB connection to the SIM? (sadly only supported by 3.5 handsets)

Wind-up bloke Baylis winds up broke, turns to UK gov for help

prior art

(Clearly, this is a wind-up)

I guess there was a reason that he had no patents.

Still, seems like old news:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/02/patent_infrigement_criminal_offence/

Boffins FREEZE PHONES to crack Android on-device crypto

Re: Are you for real?

Which goes to show how laughable FIPs is.

There's very little protection on BB from malicious apps. For instance apps can even inject keypresses. So, one bad app and "all your data are ours". The only reason that BB is used safely, is that they tend to be locked down by the company IT department.

-Mook

Facebook DIES ON THE VINE hours after Twitter tie-in

Re: Battle of the titans

Consumers? They're the ad-men, right?

The "product" is stuck in the middle, losing. (could just call them lusers)

-Mook

Bill Gates, Harry Evans and the smearing of a computer legend

Re: I am thoroughly confused by it all

Except that in good APIs can also be considered a specification for what happens behind it. Depending on hte level, there's not much scope for "inovation".

UK's new drivers now in safe hands... of laser-wielding robots

No Printing history?

"it also prints difficult-to-forge documents even if (unlike some of the competition) it didn't emerge from that business."

Except that Gemplus acquired Setec (formerly the Bank of Finland Security Printing House) back in 2005

Nordic region, Ireland adopt new 'connected telly' standard

At least MHEG works

As far as I can tell, the UK is the only country with a functioning digital teletext service - all that "press the red button" malarky is an MHEG 5 application. The most that's been done with MHP in Europe is to run bloody MHP web browsers, with no vidoe interaction.

I remember being bollocked back in the late 90s by some scandi dude unhappy with my company's support of MHEG - looks like we got it right!

-Mook

(Paris, 'cos I'd like to push her red button)

Softphones strangled by smartphone battery life

Microsoft lync? Plug a headset into your PC and off you go... (give or take the odd lync server).

Skype?

How much did they pay you to publish this manure?

Oz alkie gets hammered on hospital hand sanitiser

Also in Daycare

The daycares in Helsinki also have this sort of stuff. We caught our 3-year old sucking on a bottle of gel

Finnish regulator calls for iPhone refunds

What else would you do when you're waiting for the bus?

nuff said.

Your phone is winding me up

as long as the battery doesn't blow up

“With our system the generator accesses the battery directly, and that really increases the efficiency of the system"

Mobile phone manufacturers spend a vast amount of time on power management and on making sure that the batteries don't blow up. I guess they'll have to test each phone model separately...