http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/amit-kankanis-forum-nokia-blog A Forum Nokia Blog amitkankani 2009-11-23T21:08:26Z http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/amit-kankanis-forum-nokia-blog/2008/07/23/symbian-open-source-and-hacking <p> We have read a lot on Symbian Platform Capability hacking... </p> <p> Earlier blogs on similar topic by other authors: </p> <p> http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/daniel-rochas-forum-nokia-blog/symbian-c/2008/03/27/platsec_jailbroken </p> <p> http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/daniel-rochas-forum-nokia-blog/s60/2008/04/02/followup&nbsp; </p> <p> http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/gabor-toroks-forum-nokia-blog/symbian-c/2007/10/27/symbian-platform-security-hacked&nbsp; </p> <p> http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/gabor-toroks-forum-nokia-blog/platform-security/2008/03/09/another-hack-for-symbian-platform-security&nbsp; </p> <p> &nbsp; </p> <p> 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)... </p> <p> 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...&nbsp; </p> <p> 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.&nbsp; </p> <p> &nbsp; </p> <p> with all these happening, we have seen these tools upgrade themselves, but is Symbian also planning to upgrade and block these ?&nbsp; </p> <p> 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 </p> <p> &nbsp; </p> <p> Now the main QUESTION :&nbsp; </p> <p> 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.... </p> S60 2008-07-23T13:10:07Z amitkankani