This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Java Buzz
by Fred Grott.
Original Post: More J2ME FUD
Feed Title: ShareMe Technologies-The Mobile Future
Feed URL: http://sedoparking.com/search/registrar.php?domain=®istrar=sedopark
Feed Description: A Weblog about Java programming and digital convergence on mobile devices in such areas as P2P and collaborative technology. Old Archive .
This woudl not be so bad of an
article from The Inquirer if it inlcuded some actual facts and debunked
the FUD contained within the suggestions in the article. Let us debunk
these virus cocnerns in order.
First, midlets are not stand alone
applets and have higher security requirements than applets and thus you
are not able to write a harmfull midlet to scam a handset user. This is
prevented by Midlet security features. The feature of downloading tested
midlets from the vendor is use dto encourage users not to download midlets
from untrusted sources. Not to mention midlets cannot access such things
as Sunscriber billing number, and etc in MIDP1.0.
While it
might seem simple for a harmfull hacker to send a fake SMS offering a game
oe such; its actually quite hard. One, you have to have fake cell phone
identity which is becoming quite impossible with all the handset
subscriber number tracking. Two, you also have to have a fake website to
deliver the code which is become almost impossible with the requirements
of real information in registrars domain records and several registars
being admonished for nto following it in the past.
So why was this
Inquirer article written if there was no basis for the final suggestion?
Slow day at the Inquirer? Could not get a hold of a real J2ME programmer
to explain these issues? Who knows?
Previous Topic
