[IP] Americans in Emergency text message scare!
Begin forwarded message:
From: Andrew Orlowski <andrew.orlowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: April 3, 2006 4:12:04 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Americans in Emergency text message scare!
Dave. Before this discussion becomes too arcane, may I just point
out the fact that about a billion people in the world rely on SMS as
the most reliable messaging technology available.
SMS is the data on-ramp for the much of the world.
So are a billion people being really stupid?
Not really. If you go to Paraguay, Thailand, Uganda or all points in
between, SMS is the only universal data exchange that is widely
trusted. It's about reliability. It's an expensive proposition to "go
online" (as a Californian would understand it) in such countries, and
this offers little guarantee that the message will get through.
Hotmail, or Yahoo Mail messages sent from a cybercafe don't offer the
same level of assurance as an SMS text message. Once sent, that
message must navigate the oceans of spam on the open internet, and
spam filters ISPs set up to thwart spam.
So it's no surprise that texting, being so personal, is so popular.
When we read:
Most people don't realize how limited cell phone capacity really is
The translation is: Americans Need to Travel More.
with best wishes,
Andrew Orlowski
US Editor, The Register
San Francisco CA
Begin forwarded message:
From: Patrick Traynor <traynor@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: April 2, 2006 5:18:26 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Emergency text messages and AB 2231
Dave,
Lauren is correct. We talked about this very phenomenon in our
paper "Exploiting Open Functionality in SMS-Capable Cellular
Networks" in October. If you are looking for a technical
perspective, please see http://www.smsanalysis.org
-Patrick
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