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A Webserver on Your Cellphone?

Posted by Cliff on from the what-would-you-do-with-it dept.

Mad_Rain asks: "I saw over on Make Magazine an article about using your cell phone on the Internet, except instead of browsing the web from your cell, you can serve webpages from your phone. Of course, it uses Apache, Python and a Nokia S60 series cell phone. I can imagine a couple of creative applications for webservers in strange places, but what else can be done with this?"

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  1. Have GPS? by RingDev · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Imagine giving your children a cell phone with a web server that hosts a web service that will respond with the GPS info. I could goto MyKid.ringdev.com and see exactly where they are. Obviously you would need some serious security. You wouldn't want just anyone to get that GPS info. But it would be great for finding a lost/stolen phone too.

    -Rick

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    1. Re:Have GPS? by oliana · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Or if, when the server got pinged, it rang. So when you lose your cell-phone in your house and don't have a land-line to call it to find it, you can ping it from your computer.

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    2. Re:Have GPS? by X0563511 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Er, run a packet sniffer on the world-facing interface outside your firewall and watch how often random pings from the internet pass by.

      Maybe better would be a simple website with a small (5 letter) text field. Enter the right code, and it would ring.

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  2. Two words by EngrBohn · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Portable webcam

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  3. Out pacing the average citizen's ability by catahoula10 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A product like this one brings some questions to mind about security and the ability to admin a server by the people this would be marketed to.

    If you store alot of business phone numbers along with their personal info like e-mail, home numbers, etc, could this be hacked off the phone through the server? The abuse issues could be endless via users that have not one single clue about admining a web server.

    Our technology seems to be out pacing the average citizen's ability to control it. Which is a paradox because everyone wants a better life through technology.

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