Nokia Phones: The Curse Of Silence Bug
Spitted out by munky on January 3rd, 2009. Filed under: Tech
“How does the bug work? Text messaging has lots of buried features.There are various types of text message such as those which update your internet settings or make a voicemail icon appear. Other types include paging systems, fax and email. You can also, if you know what you are doing, fake sending an email that by putting characters with those values in the right place in a message. For email the special type is “SMS and Internet Electronic Mail interworking”. One of the things which differentiates an email from a text message is you have a “from” address as well as a body. To allow for this the standard uses a space between the “from” and the message.”
Remember that Nokia still hasn’t fixed vulnerabilities that leave its more popular phones wide open!
