On Friday 20 Jun 2008 22:11, Mukund Deshmukh wrote:
The problem is SMS messages can be easily spoofed. So cellphones as a means to do transactions is a bad idea.
does not use sms. Some other mechanism. Spoofing a simcard is not very easy (at least for now). And can be used countrywide for micro purchases,
There are plenty of SIM cloning machines available. After all SIM has bunch of memory location, which can be read, and re programmed on a blank SIM. And this could be reason, why this technology else where in the world.
Duplicating is "different" from spoofing. duplicating means you must have a sim. So you need to change the sim frequently to protect your fraud. Not much fun or profit with a micro payment system. Spoofing means you hook up your pc to a gsm engine and spoof any number of SIMs. This makes slicing very attractive.