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Shooting the breeze.

westozwind

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westozwind

WA, 1418 posts

29 Jul 2015 4:02pm

got a hammer Android phone owners?

www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/27/android_phone_text_flaw/

All I can say is pray your telco patches soon. all you need to do is receive the MMS and you're p0wned.
i can see MMS auto diallers in motion already!

westozwind

1418 posts

westozwind

WA, 1418 posts

29 Jul 2015 4:08pm

Just so the apple fanboi's dont get on their high horse, here's an iOS exploit

www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/29/apple_itunes_vulnerability/

The Android exploit is worse BTW

kiteboy dave

QLD

6525 posts

kiteboy dave

QLD, 6525 posts

29 Jul 2015 9:26pm

Hey westoz - you don't need a patch mate. Messages --> settings --> MMS --> untick 'automatically fetch mms'.

Took me all of 15 seconds.

Mark _australia

23677 posts

Mark _australia

WA, 23677 posts

29 Jul 2015 7:38pm

Phones fer phonin'

kiteboy dave

QLD

6525 posts

kiteboy dave

QLD, 6525 posts

29 Jul 2015 9:40pm

^^^ now you're just embarrassing yourself

kiteboy dave

QLD

6525 posts

kiteboy dave

QLD, 6525 posts

29 Jul 2015 9:41pm

kiteboy dave said..
^^^ now you're just embarrassing yourself

I rooted my phone

westozwind

1418 posts

westozwind

WA, 1418 posts

29 Jul 2015 8:09pm

Good advice kiteboy.
as for rooting your phone, what you do in the privacy of your own room is your business ;)

Haircut

QLD

6491 posts

Haircut

QLD, 6491 posts

29 Jul 2015 10:53pm

it's the next best thing after mounting your hard drive

Chris6791

3271 posts

Chris6791

WA, 3271 posts

30 Jul 2015 2:55am

Mark _australia said..
Phones fer phonin'

Updated from his iPhone

kernal

541 posts

kernal

WA, 541 posts

30 Jul 2015 3:30am

**** man as a network engineer that article was so ****ing painful to read OP

biggest load of bull**** i have ever read.
joshua drake can go eat a dick www.blackhat.com/us-15/speakers/Joshua-Drake.html

blatently just drumming up **** for his presentations itd take me 10 minutes to find a old telephone phreak exploit that COULD AFFECT EVERY PHONE IN THE WORRRRLLLLDDDD

Mark _australia

23677 posts

Mark _australia

WA, 23677 posts

30 Jul 2015 8:03am

kiteboy dave said..
^^^ now you're just embarrassing yourself

peoples addiction to tech is embarrassing them
phones are not computers yet and all the exploits and lack of good cleaning software makes them way more vulnerable

Apple is the antichrist

westozwind

1418 posts

westozwind

WA, 1418 posts

30 Jul 2015 8:45am

What's more disappointing is that Google don't take this seriously (and neither do Apple) so they go public to get patches created.
bit like the Jeep thing.
since when do network engineers know anything about software anyway ;)

kernal

541 posts

kernal

WA, 541 posts

31 Jul 2015 1:21pm

westozwind said..
What's more disappointing is that Google don't take this seriously (and neither do Apple) so they go public to get patches created.
bit like the Jeep thing.
since when do network engineers know anything about software anyway ;)

its true my codes brought many to tears myself included

westozwind

1418 posts

westozwind

WA, 1418 posts

31 Jul 2015 2:00pm

As a tech architect, they only let me play with crayons anyway.
nowhere near the tools. It's safer that way.

kiteboy dave

QLD

6525 posts

kiteboy dave

QLD, 6525 posts

31 Jul 2015 5:26pm

Mark _australia said..

kiteboy dave said..
^^^ now you're just embarrassing yourself

..
phones are not computers yet ..

Eh?

westozwind

1418 posts

westozwind

WA, 1418 posts

31 Jul 2015 3:28pm

kiteboy dave said..

Mark _australia said..

kiteboy dave said..
^^^ now you're just embarrassing yourself

..
phones are not computers yet ..

Eh?

Mark has a couple of km of wire and a rotary dial as his mobile. So, in his world, this is a perfectly rational statement.

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