On Friday 20 Jun 2008 22:11, Mukund Deshmukh wrote: > >> The problem is SMS messages can be easily spoofed. So cellphones > >> as a means to do transactions is a bad idea. > > > > does not use sms. Some other mechanism. > > Spoofing a simcard is not very easy (at least for now). > > And can be used countrywide for micro purchases, > > There are plenty of SIM cloning machines available. After all SIM > has bunch of memory location, which can be read, and re programmed > on a blank SIM. And this could be reason, why this technology else > where in the world.
Duplicating is "different" from spoofing. duplicating means you must have a sim. So you need to change the sim frequently to protect your fraud. Not much fun or profit with a micro payment system. Spoofing means you hook up your pc to a gsm engine and spoof any number of SIMs. This makes slicing very attractive. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
