Amit Kankani's Forum Nokia BlogA Forum Nokia Blog2008-07-23T13:10:07+03:00http://www.lifetype.net,1.2/Copyright (c) amitkankaniLifeType at Forum NokiaSymbian Open Source... and hacking !!!tag:blogs.forum.nokia.com,2008-07-23:16602008-07-23T13:10:07+03:002008-07-23T13:10:07+03:00
We have read a lot on Symbian Platform Capability hacking...
Earlier blogs on similar topic by other authors:
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We have read a lot on Symbian Platform Capability hacking...
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Earlier blogs on similar topic by other authors:
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http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/daniel-rochas-forum-nokia-blog/symbian-c/2008/03/27/platsec_jailbroken
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http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/daniel-rochas-forum-nokia-blog/s60/2008/04/02/followup
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http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/gabor-toroks-forum-nokia-blog/symbian-c/2007/10/27/symbian-platform-security-hacked
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http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/gabor-toroks-forum-nokia-blog/platform-security/2008/03/09/another-hack-for-symbian-platform-security
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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)...
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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...
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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.
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with all these happening, we have seen these tools upgrade themselves, but is Symbian also planning to upgrade and block these ?
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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
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Now the main QUESTION :
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Are Symbian, Nokia giving a deaf ear to this ??? This being the situation today, imagine what would happen when <strong>SYMBIAN GOES OPEN SOURCE</strong>... i guess no one can stop mobile virus/trojans/etc from spreading....
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