New security proposed for do-it-all phones

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plans to release a blueprint designed to make it possible to include security technology in mobile handsets in the first half of 2006, representatives told CNET News.com.

Adding hardware-based security to cell phones can enable services such as electronic ticketing and mobile payments, according to the TCG. It can also provide for secure storage of personal information such as an address book, text messages, e-mail and pictures. And, in the future, payment data such as credit card numbers will be added to the mix, the TCG said.

"Nowadays my Treo 650 has some files from my corporation. It would be nice to have the phone rendered unusable if it gets lost," said Thomas Hardjono, a principal scientist at VeriSign and member of the TCG Mobile Phone Working Group. The Palm Treo 650 is a phone with features such as e-mail, a calendar and a camera.

As handsets get smarter and used for more than just voice calls, the threat of hacker attacks and mobile phone viruses rises, Nokia's Uusilehto said. The new security features can protect the devices against such threats, he said.

"Mobile phones are becoming full of security-demanding services," Uusilehto said. "Attacks are not a major problem today, and that makes the timing pretty good for us. We have time to do security properly, where we are not in a firefighting mode."

In addition to enabling new services and protecting user data, the TCG's proposals can also be used to secure copyright-protected data on mobile phones. That use of the new security features is critical to content services, said VeriSign's Hardjono. VeriSign is a significant player in the mobile content business with its Jamba and Jamster services.

"We want to sell content, but the folks in Hollywood don't want to sign the paperwork because they want guarantees that the devices have got proper security," Hardjono said. "No DRM, no content."

But digital rights management is one way the proposed security technology could restrict cell phone users, say some user-rights advocates. Operators would also get a better way to lock phones to their networks and close control of the services and applications that can run on devices.

"A lot of carriers have a model of trying to tax everything that goes into a phone, which we think is unfortunate," said Seth Schoen, staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "The TPM is just another tool to let them do these things."

Although the Trusted Platform Module is controversial on the PC because consumers expect a lot of freedom when using their

[OneWithTech]

Cell Phones-Virus'-and Hackers

There is a serious need to enable this type of secure technology for mobile devices like cell phones, pda's, and media managers.

I personally own a N-Gage QD and have used it extensively for almost a year now. Being a web developer I use the N-Gage QD to manage and run web applications from my cell phone.

I also manage all of my contacts, calenders, emails (yes, real email). Just about anything a real computer can do at my office, I can do with my phone.

Some might say, "How is this possible"?

For the non-geeks reading this that don't know about the Symbian Operating System (http://www.symbian.com ) you can cut and paste the fore-link and go check them out.

The rest of us geeks know that the Symbian OS is just that, an Operating System. Like a Mini Windows if you will, with the ability to cover over 90% of the same functions as a regular desktop computer, or laptop.

So if you can imagine, if this phone runs a full blown operating system, and I give you code and tools to create software for it. What do you think the end result will be?

I know for a fact the end result bear's that of a Window's Machine. It's only a matter of time. Time that it takes to learn about the code and how to manipulate it. As programmers and developers learn the code, they also learn the flaws.

Although we in the tech community would like to think that all geeks are do-gooders, this is far from the truth.

Hacker's, Virus writers, and Spyware vendors all create programs to gain profit. In the act of gaining this profit there is generally un-repairable damages that come as an effect of the actions portrayed by this kind of geek.

I can't guarentee that there isn't a virus on my N-Gage QD (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/0407antivcompa.html). Series 60 OS is what the N-Gage and N-Gage QD run for Operating Systems.

The article link above will back the need to keep certain technlogical advance's in the protected, private, sector of technology.

If we don't do something about our mobile technology we are sure to suffer the same fate as Microsoft and Windows.

~Justin

[OneWithTech]

Cell Phones-Virus'-and Hackers

There is a serious need to enable this type of secure technology for mobile devices like cell phones, pda's, and media managers.

I personally own a N-Gage QD and have used it extensively for almost a year now. Being a web developer I use the N-Gage QD to manage and run web applications from my cell phone.

I also manage all of my contacts, calenders, emails (yes, real email). Just about anything a real computer can do at my office, I can do with my phone.

Some might say, "How is this possible"?

For the non-geeks reading this that don't know about the Symbian Operating System (http://www.symbian.com ) you can cut and paste the fore-link and go check them out.

The rest of us geeks know that the Symbian OS is just that, an Operating System. Like a Mini Windows if you will, with the ability to cover over 90% of the same functions as a regular desktop computer, or laptop.

So if you can imagine, if this phone runs a full blown operating system, and I give you code and tools to create software for it. What do you think the end result will be?

I know for a fact the end result bear's that of a Window's Machine. It's only a matter of time. Time that it takes to learn about the code and how to manipulate it. As programmers and developers learn the code, they also learn the flaws.

Although we in the tech community would like to think that all geeks are do-gooders, this is far from the truth.

Hacker's, Virus writers, and Spyware vendors all create programs to gain profit. In the act of gaining this profit there is generally un-repairable damages that come as an effect of the actions portrayed by this kind of geek.

I can't guarentee that there isn't a virus on my N-Gage QD (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/0407antivcompa.html). Series 60 OS is what the N-Gage and N-Gage QD run for Operating Systems.

The article link above will back the need to keep certain technlogical advance's in the protected, private, sector of technology.

If we don't do something about our mobile technology we are sure to suffer the same fate as Microsoft and Windows.

~Justin

[Mendz]

All devices...

... that enable connectivity to and from other devices (including web servers, servers, PCs, etc.) should have security features.

Meanwhile, Windows is getting into Palm devices. So this news is timely...

:D
Peace.

[Mendz]

All devices...

... that enable connectivity to and from other devices (including web servers, servers, PCs, etc.) should have security features.

Meanwhile, Windows is getting into Palm devices. So this news is timely...

:D
Peace.

[Gayle Edwards]

"Trusted Computing" is about one thing, and it sure ISNT "security".

This is really about corporate-control, eliminating consumer-choice, and imposing DRM... period. Anyone who thinks differently, really should spend a few days reading about the "Trusted Computing Alliance". This "standard", is little more than a corporate wish-list of hard-DRM, and absolute control of all computing-devices, not by the devices-owner, but by the manufacturer, and other "corporate-interests, AFTER a sale.

I am so tired of this BOLD-FACED CHARADE. And, I am SICK of where computer-owners are currently being led by these LIES.

[Gayle Edwards]

"Trusted Computing" is about one thing, and it sure ISNT "security".

This is really about corporate-control, eliminating consumer-choice, and imposing DRM... period. Anyone who thinks differently, really should spend a few days reading about the "Trusted Computing Alliance". This "standard", is little more than a corporate wish-list of hard-DRM, and absolute control of all computing-devices, not by the devices-owner, but by the manufacturer, and other "corporate-interests, AFTER a sale.

I am so tired of this BOLD-FACED CHARADE. And, I am SICK of where computer-owners are currently being led by these LIES.