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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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smart

smart(8)																  smart(8)

NAME

       smart - The Smart Package Manager

SYNOPSIS

       smart command [options] [arguments]

DESCRIPTION

       The  Smart Package Manager project has the ambitious objective of creating smart and portable algorithms for solving adequately the problem
       of managing software upgrading and installation. This tool works in all major distributions, and will bring notable advantages over  native
       tools currently in use (APT, APT-RPM, YUM, URPMI, etc).

Action commands
       update
       install
       reinstall
       upgrade
       remove
       check
       fix
       download
       clean

Setup commands
       channel
       priority
       mirror
       flag

Query commands
       search
       query
       info
       stats

       Run "smart command --help" for more information.

Options
       --version
	      Show program's version number and exit

       --config-file=FILE
	      Configuration file (default is <data-dir>/config)

       --data-dir=DIR
	      Specifies the config file location - can take http, ftp urls and local file Data directory (default is /var/lib/smart/)

       --log-level=LEVEL
	      Set the log level to level (debug, info, warning, error)

       --gui  Use the default graphic interface

       --shell
	      Use the default shell interface

       --interface=NAME
	      Use the given interface

       --ignore-locks
	      Don't respect locking

       -o OPT, --option=OPT
	      Set the option given by a name=value pair

Examples
       smart install --help
       smart install pkgname
       smart --gui
       smart --gui install pkgname
       smart --shell

FILES

       /etc/smart/
       /var/lib/smart/
       /usr/lib/smart/
       /usr/lib/smart/plugins/

SEE ALSO

       http://labix.org/smart

AUTHOR

       Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo@niemeyer.net>

Christoph Thiel 						    2006 Jun 16 							  smart(8)

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