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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Do You Use Your Mobile Phone to Access the Internet? Post 302300473 by Neo on Tuesday 24th of March 2009 08:42:44 AM
Old 03-24-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by pludi
No, but with access points that are almost, but not completely, unprotected. I mean, who still ships out APs using WEP as the default "encryption"? (Whoever it is, thank you for hours, nay days and weeks, of free internet access)
Most people use GPRS to access the Internet from their mobile, so you are being a bit "alarmist" over nothing. WEP is a wireless LAN protocol, not a GPRS protocol.

Talking WEP is not germane to mobile phones and most WEP users are laptop users.

Let's not turn this into a security "frighten everyone" discussion, please.

PS: This year so far I have had more car accidents than people hacking into my mobile phone Internet access, so if, as pludi says, we need to be so afraid of mobile phone Internet access, then I should never drive a car. In addition, drinking in discos I have had a least two drunk guys want to start a fight this year (over smiling, beautiful women), which is two more than anyone has hacked into my Internet mobile access, so I better not drive a car or go do any discos, since the risk is higher.

In other words, let's do don't go down this path of "let's be afraid"..... thanks so much.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

gnome-phone-manager

GNOME-PHONE-MANAGER(1)						   User Commands					    GNOME-PHONE-MANAGER(1)

NAME

       gnome-phone-manager - Manage your mobile phone

USAGE

       gnome-phone-manager [--identify=PORT] [--config=PORT] [-d|--debug] [--display=DISPLAY]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the gnome-phone-manager command.

       gnome-phone-manager is a program created to allow you to control aspects of your mobile phone from your GNOME desktop.

       Current features include:
	      - Runs in the background; indicates status on the panel notification area,
	      - Display on-screen alert when text message (SMS) arrives,
	      - Text message (SMS) sending facility with Evolution Addressbook integration,
	      - Sync phone clock with the computer's.

OPTIONS

   Help Options:
       -?, --help
	      Show help options

       --help-all
	      Show all help options

       --help-gtk
	      Show GTK+ Options

       --help-gst
	      Show GStreamer Options

   Application Options:
       --identify=PORT
	      Show model name of the phone connected to the given PORT which can be a Bluetooth address or a device file

       --config=PORT
	      Write  the  configuration  file  for gnokii debugging of the phone connected to the given PORT which can be a Bluetooth address or a
	      device file

       -d, --debug
	      Enable debug

       --display=DISPLAY
	      X display to use

SEE ALSO

       Homepage: http://live.gnome.org/PhoneManager

AUTHOR

       gnome-phone-manager was written by Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> and Edd Dumbill <edd@usefullinc.com>

       This manual page was written by Francesco Namuri <francesco@namuri.it> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

Francesco Namuri						     June 2011						    GNOME-PHONE-MANAGER(1)
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