[Dailydave] Seeking more info on: Devastating mobile attack under spotlight

[Matt Richard]

On 11/28/06, Gadi Evron <ge at linuxbox.org> wrote:
> Aside to the point that there are many manufacturors and that they have a
> completely different code base (OS), and forgetting the fact that ALL
> mobile phones work on different technologies (protocols) from CDMA to 3G...
>
> There is no one vulnerability which will affect all these mobile
> phones. Non.

Does this imply that every time Verizon needs to push an updated
carrier list they do so uniquely for each brand/model of phone?

It is a fact that there is a OS/protocol/model independent update
mechanism used by carriers.   The question is only what types of
update capabilities are built into this system.

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Matt Richard