Expect virus attacks on phones

NOKIA -- One of the big dangers of always-on computing is the exposure to rogue probes and virus attacks. You face the same issues with an always-on phone in yur purse or pocket. I think it's simply a matter of time before someone targets Nokia phones. There are many more Nokia phones than any other brand in Ireland. They comprise an enticing traget of opportunity.

The simplest form of attack is "bluejacking" a phone that has an open Bluetooth connection. You could use the open phone to make your own telephone coonnections. We've done that already in Clonmel by dialing out to the Internet on another phone to check my blog. The Nokia Communicator 9500 offers a more lucrative target. Get access to the Word documents on a Government Minister's 9500 and you could read the inside tension at the Cabinet table. This is really the only way to get under the curtain that cloaks current Irish government decsion-making. The used Communicator that I bought from Rory McLoughney in Thurles had buckets of faxes, fragments of spreadsheets and snippets of e-mails from dozens of clients requiring interior design work. I wouldn't be surprised if a future "reclaimed" Communicator contained virus-infected documents,

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Nokia -- Communicator 9500 info, including Nokia 9500 Communicator SDK 1.0 Beta for Symbian OS 7.0s, Nokia Communicator MIDP SDK 1.0 Beta for Symbian OS 7.0s, and Personal Profile Plug-in 1.0 Beta for Nokia Communicator SDK, white papers and documents explaining how to migrate existing Nokia 9200 Communicator applications.
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