Mobile Files
July 22, 2003 01:20 AM
There are no limits to how you can use technology to your advantage today. The other day, I had downloaded a driver file for a specific hardware and didn't have a floppy to carry it home. Since I do not have internet access at home for the moment, I had to think of ways in which I can take home the single 10kb INF file. It didn't take long enough for me to figure out how - I had my new Nokia 6610 with me and most of its 725 kb shared memory was lying empty. So I connected the phone to the IrDA port of my office PC. Since initially I didn't want to take the risk of damaging my phone with wrong filetypes, I created a blank image and inserted the driver file into the image using a steganographic tool. I went home, connected it to my laptop and got back the file. Eventually I got bolder and started dumping small files directly into the phone. And guess what, my phone is still alive! So now, I can add the mobile phone to my growing list of file-transfer-media - floppies, CDRWs, hard disks, thumb drives and MP3 Players.
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Flypig said...
So that IR port works with the 6610? Was getting some scare stories about the BAFO piece.
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Nilesh on something I too thought of the other day. At the moment I actually got more memory in my phone than on the CF card I use in my...
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Carrying files »Aint this a little scary. Look at it from the companies perspective. Just about anyone can walk away with the soft copies of important documents and there is no way they can stop them.
Imagine having used PGP instead of Steganography. Then there is simply no way they would know what you are upto or even what file you are taking out.
In the coming years, companies are gonna have real problems with industrial espionage. :)
Cheers,
D
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Santo said...
Can you suggest how to put the Reliance Mobile handsets to similar use.
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Nilesh said...
In the coming years, companies are gonna have real problems with industrial espionage. :)
They always had that problem. Only now, its easier with all the technology.
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Mahesh Shantaram said...
This is so geeky
I used to transfer MP3s from my office PC to my home PC by loading the files into my well-endowed digicam.
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urverybody said...
Dude Ive been doing that shit for years.
Let me know when you can download some porn onto your phone. Thats News!
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Thomas T Philipose said...
This is really great. Keep up your R&D
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1. Flypig said...
So that IR port works with the 6610? Was getting some scare stories about the BAFO piece.
2. Reference from pollas.dk
Read more in Carrying files »
3. Sumit Dhar said...
Aint this a little scary. Look at it from the companies perspective. Just about anyone can walk away with the soft copies of important documents and there is no way they can stop them.
Imagine having used PGP instead of Steganography. Then there is simply no way they would know what you are upto or even what file you are taking out.
In the coming years, companies are gonna have real problems with industrial espionage. :)
Cheers,
D
4. Santo said...
Can you suggest how to put the Reliance Mobile handsets to similar use.
5. Nilesh said...
In the coming years, companies are gonna have real problems with industrial espionage. :)
They always had that problem. Only now, its easier with all the technology.
6. Mahesh Shantaram said...
This is so geeky
I used to transfer MP3s from my office PC to my home PC by loading the files into my well-endowed digicam.
7. urverybody said...
Dude Ive been doing that shit for years.
Let me know when you can download some porn onto your phone. Thats News!
8. Thomas T Philipose said...
This is really great. Keep up your R&D