The Android IM app that brought T-Mobile's network to its knees

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13 points·blasdel··6 comments

Sounds like they currently run their network in "trusted" mode. They need to start treating all clients as potentially rogue and malicious.

The internet at large suffered similarly when it grew to general use and is now better for it on many levels.

And the areas that refused to change are the most flaky parts of the infrastructure. No authentication of the "From" field in email? Well look at all that spam. No 3-way handshake for DNS? Well look at all that DNS cache poisoning.

The problem is that once the insecure infrastructure is "good enough", nobody adopts the improvements. See also: NAT vs. IPv6.

Perhaps most interestingly, T-Mobile wrote that its network has come under significant strain from Apple's iPhone. ... USA Today in 2009 reported--citing unnamed sources--that T-Mobile had 300,000 unlocked iPhones running on its network.

A T-Mobile spokesperson was not immediately able to provide details on the incident, including when and where it happened and what application, developer and vendors were involved.

That sure adds to the credibility. I totally believe that this happened now!

Seems like T-Mobile should upgrade their network.

Catching criminals is too difficult with civil liberties.

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