On 5/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ian Stirling</b> <<a href="mailto:openmoko@mauve.plus.com">openmoko@mauve.plus.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Raphaël Jacquot wrote:<br>> Ian Stirling wrote:<br>><br>>><br>>> This is _not_ DRM that stops the owner of the phone doing stuff.<br>>><br>>> It's DRM that stops users of the phone that may or may not be
<br>>> authorised users from doing stuff.<br>>><br>>> Think of it as a BIOS password on steroids.<br>><br>> DRM never worked, and never will. it's a fact of life, get over it.<br>><br><br>It's not DRM. It's a BIOS password, which doesn't let you flash it
<br>without the password.<br><br>Without it, any employee/pervert that wants to drop a logger on your<br>childs phone can do whatever they want to any Neo phone with a minute or<br>so alone with it.<br></blockquote></div>
<br><br>Suddenly it's about the children and not about spying on your employees? How convenient...<br><br>Anyone given a few minutes alone with your phone could do whatever they wanted to it. The number one rule of computer security: prevent physical access. With physical access, you can accomplish pretty much anything!
<br><br>-Steven<br>