i haven't seen any mention of this on here yet, and it came from the latest SANS newsbytes (v11 n56). it gave me a grin to think of yet another thing i don't have to worry about as an openmoko user, because my GSM device is entirely under my control, and i can inspect the source for everything i run, if i want to.
--Blackberry Update Found to Contain Spyware (July 14, 2009) A United Arab Emirates service provider pushed out a BlackBerry update that contains spyware capable of intercepting users email and text messages and sending them back to the server. The performance-enhancement patch was sent as a WAP Push message to 100,000 users. Its spyware capabilities were discovered only after one user took a closer look at the update because it appeared to be draining the devices battery. The battery was being drained because the application was trying to register with a central server that became overwhelmed with the traffic, so the devices repeatedly tried to make contact. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/14/blackberry_snooping/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/blackberry-spies/ -- Tom Yates - http://www.teaparty.net _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community