http://www.newlc.com/en/Escalation-of-permissions-in.html Comments for "Escalation of permissions in Symbian phones" en http://www.newlc.com/en/Escalation-of-permissions-in.html#comment-2783 <div class="spip-content">Could somebody explain what exactly is it that prevents this on EKA2?</div> Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:35:35 +0100 Anonymous comment 2783 at http://www.newlc.com http://www.newlc.com/en/Escalation-of-permissions-in.html <div class="spip-content">Symbian is an operating system used in many mobile phones including the new Nokia models and the Siemens-SX1. In symbian the programs are usually executed in user-mode. To access protected services they need to jump into kernel mode, which has unlimited power. Of course the kernel will not allow the user program to do anything it wants: permissions need to be requested.</div><p><a href="http://www.newlc.com/en/Escalation-of-permissions-in.html">read more</a></p> http://www.newlc.com/en/Escalation-of-permissions-in.html#comments Security Symbian OS Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:19:47 +0100 fca00000 1030 at http://www.newlc.com