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This is the talk that I blogged about earlier about owning the iPhone through SMS. The work Charlie and Collin did was actually amazing.

In their presentation they first looked at SMS.  SMS is a building block of the phone system and essential to the working of the modern network because it is used for all kinds of stuff. Why is it good to attack? No firewall, processed by all phones, no user interaction and you only need a phone number to send an SMS.

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Soundbyte of the day: Lex Stamos about the twitter hack: “No matter how low opinion you have of your user, they will always  prove you wrong”

Cloud computing is actually defined as three types of services: Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastrcture as a Service (IaaS). A large VMWare farm for one company is not cloud computing.

Each of the models has their pro’s and cons.

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