[Discuss-gnuradio] SDR Forum Report on Security

[Nick Waterman]

John Gilmore wrote:
[snip]
> would look for 802.11 local connectivity, or Metricom wide-area
> connectivity, or its own networking protocol if any similar station
> was in range, or failing that, would be able to use a terrible and
> expensive cellular data or voice network.  All of this would be
> transparent to the user.  None of the vendors who authored this report
> would ever build such a device, because the majority of the time it
> would not force users to pay them by the minute.  And user or
> competitor attempts to reprogram existing devices to do this, or any
> part of it, would be warded off as "attacks" by "malicious hackers".

I don't believe I'd be revealing anything top-secret if I were to tell 
you that a certain "BB" company, famous for their 2-way-pager email 
gadgets and now email-and-voice GPRS/GSM gadgets, is considering 802.11, 
voice-over-IP, and all other kinds of integration. The idea would be 
that your office email is already delivered straight to your hip in 
seconds, but how about your office voice calls, easy integration with 
your office voicemail, and voice-over-IP so you could answer your office 
desk phone from another part of the building over an 802.11 vlan or similar?

I think you're being a little TOO cynical. If the customers want it 
enough, someone will make it. I've often heard the phrase "If you can 
sell 10,000 of them, we'll make it" around the office. The cellphone 
carriers don't make ALL the decisions, you know   :-)

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"Nosey" Nick Waterman, Senior Sysadmin.  #include <stddisclaimer>
sig at noseynick.net  http://noseynick.net/
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. -- Kin Hubbard


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