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From: Dave Levenson <dave%westmark@uunet.uu.net>
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Subject: Re: A Couple Tech Questions About Cellular Phones
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Date: 27 Jul 90 02:19:45 GMT
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In article <10094@accuvax.nwu.edu>, rpw3%rigden.wpd@sgi.com (Rob
Warnock) writes:

> I have no idea whether there is any magic a cellular CO can do to
> create an "infinity tap" without causing ringing. I would doubt it,
> but, hey, bugs and Trojan horses *have* been known to exist in
> software, no?  And cellular phones *are* controlled by the software in
> the phone's local microprocessor.

There appear to be tens or hundreds of companies manufacturing
cellular telephones.  A trojan horse of the type described could,
conceivably, be in one or two of them, but probably not in *all* since
they don't all contain the same code.


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