Posts by Aidan242

Blindly accepting network update texts could have pwned your mobe, say researchers

Re: Slight mix up

Agreed, this is the terminal settings. The OTA CP provisioning documents claim this about the SEC parameter: "The parameter specifies the security mechanism used (if it is not present, no security is used). " [1]

This seems that CheckPoint is calling out manufacturers for following the specification, rather than highlighting the fact that the specification is faulty. This leaves you wondering if any handsets deviate from the specification in this area...

[1] http://www.openmobilealliance.org/release/ClientProv/V1_1-20090728-A/OMA-WAP-TS-ProvCont-V1_1-20090728-A.pdf

This hospital drug pump can be hacked over a network – and the US FDA is freaking out

Re: Why, exactly, do these things need outside connectivity in the first place?

The connectivity idea was to help to prevent dosage errors. Slap a barcode on the drug so that the machine know what it is, and can enforce upper and lower dosage limits. There had been cases where the human setting up previous machines couldn't tell the difference between milligrams and micrograms, and/or where the decimal point was.

Brit plods' post-TETRA radio omnishambles comes home to roost

Re: 4G?

No peer to peer mode? You mean like 36.843 LTE Device to Device?

Hate the BlackBerry Z10 and Passport? How about this dusty old flashback instead?

Re: Only if the email is freed up

I haven't seen any delay on new email on IMAP accounts on my Z30. In my experience, email turns up pretty instantly - usually faster than any of my desktop email clients. There's no 15 minute delay as far as I can see.

Now, if you were using a POP3 account, then, yes, there would be a delay as the protocol doesn't offer any notification of new email.

GET A ROOM, yells Facebook as it stumbles on IRC, slaps it in an app

1993 just called

They wanted their ICMP unreach packets back... either that, or their takeover wars...

Chipmaker FTDI bricking counterfeit kit

Why not generic CDC?

One thing that people don't seem to have picked up on is that it's fairly easy to implement a generic USB CDC device that would work under Windows/Linux/OSX/Android/BlackBerry/(insert OS of choice). Why go to the trouble of explicit compatibility with FTDI chips with all the trouble of reverse engineering them?

OpenWRT gets native IPv6 slurping in major refresh

Hopefully it works better than some trunk builds..

Where, if you'd entered your IPv6 address information in the format requested, it prevented IPv6 and IPv4 connectivity...

British Gas robo home remote gets itself into hot water

Not for modern homes.

Sadly, living in a halfway modern home with more than one heating zone, this doesn't fly. Just as well, as I don't fancy replacing 12 thermostats/thermocron at a cost of £199 each. BG had this to say "Multiple thermostats, often termed multi-zone heating are not supported by Remote Heating Control™ at the moment. The system has been designed for single thermostat systems only."

Just what does BT have planned for its 4G licence: We drill into UK LTE

Re: Have Offcom moved the goalposts

Assuming you really meant 3G, then yes, O2 have been running 3G on 900MHz for nearly two years now. Yes, there's plenty of devices that support it too. If you meant LTE900, then I haven't got a clue. :)

All you need to know about nano SIMs - before they are EXTERMINATED

Interesting... Is this Apple's attempt at cornering the NFC payment market?

Currently, the SIM card acts as the secure element in the payment mechanism. If there's no SIM, who provides the secure element? Some devices do have an embedded secure element (IE, built in to the device), but you have to approach the vendor if you want access to it, let alone use it to store stuff. That would tie nicely in with Apple's land grab wouldn't it?

Windows 7 hotspot hacker turns to software bonding

Not sure how you could bond a WiFi and cellular connection at the same time, given they're on separate network domains. Guess it'd work if you round robin connections through them, but that'd hardly aggregate performance.

RIM reshuffles UK and European team ahead of new OS

Re: If only they...

Hmm, given there's been root exploits against SELinux kernel in the past, I'm not sure that I'm going to hold my breath on "hardened" Android remaining unrootable. When's the last time you tried a Blackberry?

Java won the smartphone wars (and nobody noticed)

Someone doesn't know their history

I think someone might have forgotten that RIM pretty much started out with Java, almost from the beginning, rather than tagging it on later. After all, the RIM 957 (year 2000!) used JDE for app development. The first GPRS capable device RIM launched (BlackBerry 5810) was fully Java. That's hardly adding it on at a later date "to remain competitive"!

Freeview TV shoved aside for iPad-compatible 4G

4G? We can't even manage 2G yet!

Blanket covering the UK in 4G would be nice, but we can't even manage to get 2G anywhere near the levels of TV broadcasts (predicted at 99% of households as of Nov/2012). 4G? Better hope those operators are happy to upgrade their daisychain microwave links from cell to cell before hitting a proper backhaul then.

From where I live, broadcast (Freeview) is far more reliable than ADSL (Anyone notice BT's 21CN outage the other day?) or mobile (Having had several outages in the last 12 months).