Hacking Mobile Phones (ISBN 1598631063)

chemicalb4n3ed:
mr ankt fadia back again wid some more cut n paste tutorials n once again has he convinced the publisher to have his book published wat a joke.dis 17 yr ol button clicking script kiddie hacker aka security guru needs to stop copying garbage tutorials n then claim that their his own .wat a fake b$$$$$d,so is ankit fadia really the great hacker who he claims to be heres a quote from the l33t hacker EMPORER of the (IHC) "Ankit fadia.ethical hacker? neither is he ethical nor is he a hacker !!!1 yr ago he begged and bragged to a Indian hacker about his fake VSNL hacking skill !!its another matter , he was kicked out..lol" <<<<

says nothing but the obvious:
1. Pathetic and wrong information. 2. Just the last page talks about GSM/CDMA stuff, leaving the core (vary basic functionality). Interesting part is that there have been tonnes of references towards finding IMEI numbering which is not applicable in the case of CDMA based handsets. Even that has not been clarified. So if I did not know it, I would still be continuing using *#06# in CDMA handsets, Oh !!! 4. There are no probabilities in Security, either that is high state or low, leaving absolutely no scope to go to tri-state mode. 5. No mention of intented audiences: Frankly speaking for technical people, its totally dump. 6. The author has used the word "basically" in every other sentence and overall usage has gone in thousands.

Getting the Most out of Your Phone, and Keeping it Secret:
We are accustomed to thinking of a telephone as a private device that we talk into and the voice comes out of the other end. Most people fail to realize that a mobile or cell phone is really a radio. When we talk, we are really transmitting what we say to a radio receiver somewhere. What we send out into the air, someone else can receive, someone who we just might not want to hear what we are saying. Also most people think of a cell phone as a telephone. But down inside, it is really a fairly powerful computer. Further, it is a computer that, by definition is connected to a communications medium. All this means that cell phone security is a growing problem. Just like with any other computer connected to a phone line: 1. your phone is susceptible to being broken into and any information stored there stolen; 2. your phone is susceptible to viruses, trojans and all the other bad software that people might want to put on it; 3. your phone has built in features that the manufacturer keeps secret for its own use by service personnel and the like. This book covers these areas in a casually written lively style. The book is broken down into two major sections. First is a general description area that is applicable to virtually all phones. Then there is a manufacturer by manufacturer breakdown of phones giving special points about each of them.