Posts by Vaelian

Quote:Originally Posted by RichL A proprierity technology, no matter how good, is not a suitable replacement for an open obiqiutous standard. Whilst there's no solution to this issue, there's certainly wokrarounds that Apple could...

Quote:Originally Posted by muppetry Quote:Originally Posted by jragosta Quote:Originally Posted by muppetry It's not completely false; Yes, it's completely false. The person I was responding to said that the 'from' field...

Quote:I have never heard the term QoS used in the sense of allowing greater bandwidth. In IT vocabulary it is synonymous with throttling. Are you sure they open up the stream for video and FT? QoS is about traffic shaping, not bandwidth,...

Quote:Originally Posted by Wiggin  The sender field in the SMS specification is alphanumeric, an SMS central (or a user behind an SMS central that doesn't care about what goes in the messages) can put whatever they wish in there. ...

Quote:Originally Posted by logandigges Quote:Originally Posted by jragosta How in the world is Apple supposed to fix an inherent SMS problem? The fact is that when an SMS message is sent, it may have a fake return address. How...

Quote:Originally Posted by nagromme Are other smartphones immune from this SMS issue? Is it iPhone-specific? (Some statements imply that this is not an iPhone issue at all, just a carrier issue.) No, as I mentioned in the original...

Quote:Originally Posted by SolipsismX Quote:Originally Posted by Vaelian This concerns me. What happens to video conferencing apps then? I'm developing one myself and don't want it rejected because of crap like this. ...

This concerns me. What happens to video conferencing apps then? I'm developing one myself and don't want it rejected because of crap like this. Furthermore, how does Apple accept this crap? And why isn't the FCC preventing this kind...

Quote:So it sounds like a problem somewhat unique to iOS, and perhaps a concern for users right? No, SMS spoofing (both names and numbers) is not an iOS-only problem at all and it predates the iPhone, as I mentioned earlier -- I remember...

SMS spoofing is an issue that predates iPhone, and there's really nothing Apple can do about it since it is caused by exactly the same constraints that allow E-mail spoofing: trusting all relays between the sender and the receiver. ...