Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 03:13:18 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GSM vs. CDMA (was: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c)) Message-ID: <v0422080cb69297e3d515@[10.0.1.4]> In-Reply-To: <20010123111154.C16070@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200101211447.f0LElEk04073@mobile.wemm.org> <KAECKEJJOLGHAFGGNIKMAELICAAA.res02jw5@gte.net> <20010121145018.A73989@citusc17.usc.edu> <20010121165422.A44505@peorth.iteration.net> <v04220821b691222656eb@[10.0.1.2]> <20010122103136.L93049@wantadilla.lemis.com> <v04220824b69129ce24ec@[10.0.1.2]> <20010123104225.A16006@wantadilla.lemis.com> <v04220808b6927dd3b3bc@[10.0.1.4]> <20010123111154.C16070@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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At 11:11 AM +1030 2001/1/23, Greg Lehey wrote: > My phone only has 88 entries. My Nokia 7110 has room for 1000 entries, and I have easily exceeded 100 in the past. My Nokia 6150 has room for 150 entries in the phone, and I currently have 105. >> and they don't allow long enough text labels per entry. Again, if >> you need to transfer them, do it by infrared. > > That's difficult if you're transferring from a Motorola to a Nokia. It doesn't have to be. Heck, you could send the necessary information via SMS, if infrared wasn't an option. > They didn't when I bought my Motorola. You don't really expect mobile > phone salesmen to have a brain, do you? They do have to be able to activate the phones they sell, so they have to have a certain minimum amount of knowledge and experience. If nothing else, they should be able to look up the necessary information and be able to follow the steps provided. > Sure they could. But in view of the fact that many don't even have a > function to transfer data from SIM to phone and back, what chance do > you think there is that they would actually do it? I've got this ability. Sadly, the Nokia 6150 doesn't tell you how many slots on the SIM card are in use (although the Nokia 7110 does), so I just copied over all the entries on my SIM card to my phone, so that I could determine just how many total entries I had in my phone (numbers above). What phones are you using that don't have this ability? > There are too many "could"s in here. I see the ability to beam this > kind of info from one phone to another as more of a security issue > than keeping it on a SIM. Naw, use public key encryption. You could ensure that this information is never transmitted in the clear, and that the phone user can never decrypt it even if they did somehow intercept the transmission. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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