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Expertise in C++ for Symbian OS, Application Development for Symbian Series 60. Currently working in "Eterno Infotech Private Limited", as a Software Specialist. My main interests: Designing and developing Applications for smart phones.

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Amit Kankani's Forum Nokia Blog

Symbian Open Source... and hacking !!!

amitkankani | 23 July, 2008 13:10

We have read a lot on Symbian Platform Capability hacking...

Earlier blogs on similar topic by other authors:

http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/daniel-rochas-forum-nokia-blog/symbian-c/2008/03/27/platsec_jailbroken

http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/daniel-rochas-forum-nokia-blog/s60/2008/04/02/followup 

http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/gabor-toroks-forum-nokia-blog/symbian-c/2007/10/27/symbian-platform-security-hacked 

http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/gabor-toroks-forum-nokia-blog/platform-security/2008/03/09/another-hack-for-symbian-platform-security 

 

All of the above required a person to do a lot and then the phone was hacked.... Now there are new cracks, that allows installing UNSIGNED applications too (bipinda cracked only)...

And not only that, there is an application, SecMan which can disable Capabilities. Further, there was another tool, which will auto start and disable capabilities too.... I can't give the direct links, but one can search www.ipmart-forum.com for hacking symbian and would get it... So it is like one application now, which can be opened and there we can choose to Enable securitly or Disable security... 

So hacking is not only for tech savy people, but any one.. and based on these hacks, all the softwares (almost all the popular ones) have a cracked version as well ! Though I personally am scared to use them as I don't know what side effect a cracked version can have on my device, I tried a few and they actually worked. 

 

with all these happening, we have seen these tools upgrade themselves, but is Symbian also planning to upgrade and block these ? 

I have personally tried the tool and I was able to browse, cut, copy, paste, everything from any private folder on the phone, be it c:\sys\bin or c:\private\xxxxxx

 

Now the main QUESTION : 

Are Symbian, Nokia giving a deaf ear to this ??? This being the situation today, imagine what would happen when SYMBIAN GOES OPEN SOURCE... i guess no one can stop mobile virus/trojans/etc from spreading....

 
 

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