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Oops, I mean 17:00EDT. Even I'm not awake that late - after 4 I just can't think anymore.
We don't need legislation to stay within the law
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That's an interesting concept - if we plan a day in advance to something of the effect of "at 5:00EDT, everyone go to the RIAA site" - that would create a very effective, yet very legal, DoS.
OK, everyone, tomorrow, July 31, 5:00EDT, attack.:-)
As you said, they're not really disposable - just cheap.
In regards to the possibility of making fake cards to get more minutes, they'll probably have a central database that will keep track of which cards have been purchased, and used. That would make it so that you would have to guess a card number that is already purchased, but not used yet.
Most likely, since they'll be so cheap, they'll use established (and quickly becoming outdated) cell technologies such as CDMA, TDMA, and even analog. These are by far the most wide-spread, established, technologies.
Maybe they'll even be analog-only, since that bandwidth is quickly becoming unused as every phone less than a few years old supports digital.
Geez, that's terrible that they have your SSN be your ID number. You should try to get them to change that policy. Sometimes an SSN is all you need to set up a bank or credit card account... That itself is another problem - we really need some other form of verification system. I know national ID cards (with some sort of biometric authenication) are a bad thing, but they sure would be nice to stop fraud.
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Oops, I mean 17:00EDT. Even I'm not awake that late - after 4 I just can't think anymore.
That's an interesting concept - if we plan a day in advance to something of the effect of "at 5:00EDT, everyone go to the RIAA site" - that would create a very effective, yet very legal, DoS.
:-)
OK, everyone, tomorrow, July 31, 5:00EDT, attack.
We don't need legislation.
As you said, they're not really disposable - just cheap. In regards to the possibility of making fake cards to get more minutes, they'll probably have a central database that will keep track of which cards have been purchased, and used. That would make it so that you would have to guess a card number that is already purchased, but not used yet.
Most likely, since they'll be so cheap, they'll use established (and quickly becoming outdated) cell technologies such as CDMA, TDMA, and even analog. These are by far the most wide-spread, established, technologies. Maybe they'll even be analog-only, since that bandwidth is quickly becoming unused as every phone less than a few years old supports digital.
Geez, that's terrible that they have your SSN be your ID number. You should try to get them to change that policy. Sometimes an SSN is all you need to set up a bank or credit card account... That itself is another problem - we really need some other form of verification system. I know national ID cards (with some sort of biometric authenication) are a bad thing, but they sure would be nice to stop fraud.