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

[Gadi Evron]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Matt Richard wrote:
> 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.

If you run a CDMA network on a Motorolla cell phone, and a GSM network on
a Nokia, you will talk to them differently.