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PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:12 pm    Post subject: SS Thrasher Reply with quote

Well, sometimes there is situation when one cannot resist and does useless stuff. There was an article on SMS DoS attack published (belive or not) in NY Times, see http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/technology/05phone.html
It's bloody simple and quite unusable, you just try to send as many messages as possible and because SMS uses signaling channel the cell (and users in) has problems. In fact we have this issue every Christmas/New Year's Eve so it no news Smile SMSPal could be easily used, it sends about 1 message a sec, so with ~160 devices you could do some harm. It would be pricey so maybe SS (Suplementary Services) comes handy - it's free. On the other hand it's slower so you need more devices.

Maybe the best DoS would be with prepaids with no credit, phone tries to send the message so channel is blocked anyway (and free because there is no credit). So SMSPal could be used as well.

Useless, just could not resist. NYT where are you?

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