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Preventing Smart-Phone Armageddon

MIT TechnologyReview If hackers got access to enough smart phones, they could paralyze wireless communications. In 2009, Scott Totzke, vice president of security at Research in Motion — maker of the BlackBerry smartphone — told Reuters that his nightmare scenario was a type of attack in which a sufficient number of smart phones in a [...]

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uipaq

UIPAQ(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						  UIPAQ(4)

NAME

     uipaq -- USB support for iPAQ units

SYNOPSIS

     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

	   device uipaq
	   device ucom

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

	   uipaq_load="YES"

HARDWARE

     The uipaq driver supports the following adapters:

	   ASUS P535 PDA
	   Casio BE300 PDA
	   Compaq IPaq PocketPC
	   HP Jornada 568
	   HP iPAQ 22xx/Jornada 548
	   HTC PPC6700 Modem
	   HTC Smart Phone
	   HTC Winmobile
	   Sharp W-ZERO3 ES Spart Phone
	   Most Windows CE based phones

DESCRIPTION

     The uipaq driver provides support for the USB serial emulation provided by the iPAQ devices.

     The device is accessed through the ucom(4) driver which makes it behave like a tty(4).

SEE ALSO

     tty(4), ucom(4), uhub(4), usb(4)

HISTORY

     The FreeBSD support was imported from NetBSD for FreeBSD 7.0.  NetBSD added support in NetBSD 4.0 and it was imported from OpenBSD 3.8.

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								  August 24, 2008							       BSD

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