NewLC - Another hack for Symbian Platform Security - Comments

Re: Another hack for Symbian Platform Security

rbrunner — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:58:26 +0100

Pretty natural, I would say. The recent troubles with Symbian Signed, impossible-to-get developer certificates, etc., must have gotten the attention of some hackers, because suddenly there is a little fame to win for the one who cracks Platform Security where before there was only a vast plain of boring-ness, uninteresting for the average hackers, and they played elsewhere, e.g. hacking the iPhone again and again after each firmware update.

I have seen things where a hacker modified the kernel of one of his Linux smartphones and emulated some ARM commands that his older CPU does not implement but that Android needs, just to be able to run said Android on his device. Attract people like this to Symbian PlatSec, and it won't hold long.

Re: Another hack for Symbian Platform Security

indrajit.tapadar@gmail.com — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:57:12 +0100

A superb method to catch the eye. I very much agree to Numpty's comments above, It is simply ridiculous article in symbian freak about saying a good bye to s60.

Anyways, Symbian platform security is a superb way to keep our phone secure unless the user wants to destroy it himself.

Re: Another hack for Symbian Platform Security

Numpty Alert — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:29:03 +0100

The title of that posting is totally ridiculous.

Surely the point of platform security is to protect an unsuspecting phone user from malicious software. If the owner of the phone is able, via a convoluted process to be able to make their own phone less secure, then to me that is not a hole in platform security.

Another hack for Symbian Platform Security

tote — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:24:58 +0100

One of my articles that has gained lots of attention was written about hacking Symbian Platform Security. Although it turned out that reproducing the workaround found by Symbiaali is laborous, requires strong technical knowledge and its wide-spread use is very unlikely, it clearly showed me that people were interested in this topic.