>Mischief that has caused cell phones to go haywire in Europe and Japan could be just >the beginning. >The hacker underground has ordered a hit on the mobile phone platform, industry >leaders
It's neat that "industry leaders", whoever the thugs may be, follow bush fashion and stuff "hackers" with terrorists and Cypherpunk Movement, those that circulate orders as bin laden in stegoed jpegs, but this is not really effective. Huge money looted by privatizing ether is the thing of the past. As with microsoft, all attempts to concentrate technology so that everyone pays to one monopoly lead to increasing costs of attacks. This is the price that economics of mass market have to pay. This makes economics of scale unviable. Making a lot of the same creates vulnerabilities. Current attempts to cure this by making thinking/programming illegal are bound to fail. The only security, after all, can prove to be security through obscurity, where every town has its own, unique, cell phone technology and frequencies and modulation, and attacking each will mean learning each one first. Of course that it will be expensive, and I think it's good. Pipe dreams of selling globally are over. Brain cycles are the only truly limited resource.
