It has nothing to do with C. It's just a stupid bug that could occur with any other language.
Mobile phones don't have the paranoid mentality of the PC world. Input checking is less strict in order to reduce code size and optimize performance. Conformance and endurance tests are more important than strange corner-cases imagined by a hacker in his basement.
Checking that kind of assertion at compile time is a nearly intractable problem
Some tools are good at it. Professional versions of Visual Studio 2005 and above have an integrated code verifier that can detect buffer overruns and null pointer deferences at compile time.
The security is in the passport, not the reader or the transport layer. There is an international standard for passport. The smartcard must also be certified before it can be used in a passport.
I would say Nokia is more an exception than the rule. I don't think HTC, Samsung or BlackBerry design their own baseband hardware and software. They probably buy integrated chipsets from Texas Instruments, Infineon or NXP.
Designing a baseband and manufacturing a phone are two different things.
Did someone review the "fix"?
Because a technician can patch something that will break many years later, causing one of the deadliest airplane crash of all time.
Knowing how airplane companies put pressure on pilots and technicians, I would not have taken a chance and left the plane.
I encountered the same issue when I was working on a low-end 2G phone. The problem was related to the DSP coprocessor. The plastic case almost melted after overheating for a night during a test campain.
The device seemed to work OK after that. The problem is that maybe some components were harmed and it could cause some random failures afterwards.
I would definetely ask for a new device after such overheating.
I don't know how it is implemented by MS but there is a standard for this: the NFC Data Exchange Format.
Nokia implements a standard Java API for this.
Can social skills be taught? You're either attractive or you're not. Attractiveness comes from your genes. It's a gift. When you have "good" genes, you are naturally attractive and people want to be around you. If you have nothing good to offer in terms of natural selection and genetic pool improvement, you will not be attractive no matter how hard you try.
There is no overreaches. The information is already here. It just needs to be exploited.
Abuses and opression didn't wait DNA to take place. Just look at all the innocent (mostly black) people who spent 20 years in prison waiting for death before being cleared by DNA analysis. Before DNA, "similarities" in hair texture was enough to convict someone (especially young black males.)
Occasional DNA tests by police, comparing suspects to locally found evidence
could be OK, with the data returned to the owners, or owner's assigned
attorney/public notary after the completion of the trial.
It should not be allowed to be archived, even if it means a whole lot
of wasted work, and having to redo everything over and over
"wasted work" or wasted lives... French serial killer Guy Georges could have been
arrested sooner and two lives spared if a global DNA database had been in place.
Try the telecom operators. They decide which games they want to embed in the phone they buy from the manufacturers. Keep in mind that they prefer games that generates traffic, so you might want to add some SMS level unlocking "feature" in your game.
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It has nothing to do with C. It's just a stupid bug that could occur with any other language. Mobile phones don't have the paranoid mentality of the PC world. Input checking is less strict in order to reduce code size and optimize performance. Conformance and endurance tests are more important than strange corner-cases imagined by a hacker in his basement.
Checking that kind of assertion at compile time is a nearly intractable problem
Some tools are good at it. Professional versions of Visual Studio 2005 and above have an integrated code verifier that can detect buffer overruns and null pointer deferences at compile time.
The security is in the passport, not the reader or the transport layer. There is an international standard for passport. The smartcard must also be certified before it can be used in a passport.
The quality of a programmer is often proportional to his ego.
I would say Nokia is more an exception than the rule. I don't think HTC, Samsung or BlackBerry design their own baseband hardware and software. They probably buy integrated chipsets from Texas Instruments, Infineon or NXP.
Designing a baseband and manufacturing a phone are two different things.
Markets don't lie.
You must be kidding. This looks like the burst of another speculation bubble.
Did someone review the "fix"? Because a technician can patch something that will break many years later, causing one of the deadliest airplane crash of all time. Knowing how airplane companies put pressure on pilots and technicians, I would not have taken a chance and left the plane.
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I encountered the same issue when I was working on a low-end 2G phone. The problem was related to the DSP coprocessor. The plastic case almost melted after overheating for a night during a test campain. The device seemed to work OK after that. The problem is that maybe some components were harmed and it could cause some random failures afterwards. I would definetely ask for a new device after such overheating.
This website can track the location of any cell phone. http://www.themobiletracker.com/
The television is an entertainment device, nothing more.
No, television is the brain washing machine. The government needs it to keep the people asleep.
Watch porn in a virtual machine.
I don't know how it is implemented by MS but there is a standard for this: the NFC Data Exchange Format. Nokia implements a standard Java API for this.
Can social skills be taught? You're either attractive or you're not. Attractiveness comes from your genes. It's a gift. When you have "good" genes, you are naturally attractive and people want to be around you. If you have nothing good to offer in terms of natural selection and genetic pool improvement, you will not be attractive no matter how hard you try.
There is no overreaches. The information is already here. It just needs to be exploited. Abuses and opression didn't wait DNA to take place. Just look at all the innocent (mostly black) people who spent 20 years in prison waiting for death before being cleared by DNA analysis. Before DNA, "similarities" in hair texture was enough to convict someone (especially young black males.)
Occasional DNA tests by police, comparing suspects to locally found evidence could be OK, with the data returned to the owners, or owner's assigned attorney/public notary after the completion of the trial. It should not be allowed to be archived, even if it means a whole lot of wasted work, and having to redo everything over and over
"wasted work" or wasted lives... French serial killer Guy Georges could have been arrested sooner and two lives spared if a global DNA database had been in place.
Try the telecom operators. They decide which games they want to embed in the phone they buy from the manufacturers. Keep in mind that they prefer games that generates traffic, so you might want to add some SMS level unlocking "feature" in your game.