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Worm Developed for Nokia Series-60 Phones
Tuxedo Jack writes "It had to happen. The first worm designed specifically for cellular phones has been developed, and Cabir appears to be a way of effectively killing Nokia Series-60 cellular phones via shortening the battery life due to scanning for nearby Bluetooth devices and propagating itself. This still relies on a user to open it, so hopefully that won't be many, and those that do must use a file manager to find and kill the worm. At least it isn't a dialer!"
It's a proof of concept worm. It's not in the wild yet, according to Symantec.
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right at the entrance: "Notice, cell phone useage is prohibited inside the theater. Anyone who's cellphone interrupts the other patrons will be asked to leave immediately"
Something like that. People can set it to vibrate for incoming and go out to the lobby to talk if they want to. If they can use night vision goggles to check for videographers, they can do the same thing to locate cell phone users. They might initally lose some customers from false indignation, but if people knew a local theater was strict on that, they actually might pick up business. I mean, they got all day to yak it up, people go to the movies for a little R&R,to relax and enjoy the flick, enoughs enough already with the thing being glued to people's heads. And if they put up a stink after being asked to leave, no probs, call the heat and have them arrested for trespass or something. I'm a pretty strict personal rights and privacy guy, that means I have to also respect OTHER'S rights as well, and one of them is to be not annoyed basically when you are in public. It sucks we almost have to legislate what used to be known as common courtesy in a lot of instances.
Of course, I boycott movies now, most of them anyway, so the point is moot, I don't drop coin into the MIAAs coffers any longer, but still, I can see where hearing the latest fabulous ringtones in the theater would be teh sux.
The sad thing is some prick is going to get their kicks out of making a virus that will cause these mobile phones to constantly call 911, and it could place lives at risk by jamming 911 call centers. Didn't they already have a computer virus like that which used modems?