Orange SPV MS smartphone cert security cracked

[GadgetMaster]

The Orange SPV has achieved the dubious distinction of being the first Microsoft smartphone to have its security cracked. Orange as set the phones up so they will only run Orange-certified applications, but as yet hasn't got much further than promises when it comes to telling people how you develop for it, get apps certified, get development systems and so on.

Which means a lot of deeply unhappy would-be SPV developers - until now. It's not absolutely clear to us who first came up with a crack, but MoDaCo has checked it out, it works and there's a certain amount of happly cackling from that direction.

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Source: TheRegister

[Wilse]

All you have to do is: back up, reset & wait ten minutes? Nice.

[L8-X]

Stupid M$!! :-D

[SilvrDrgn]

This is too funny and ironic!!  After what M$ did to Sendo, it's the icing on the cake!!   :-)

[amigamad]

Releasing crap is what microsoft is good at .

[Wilse]

Releasing crap is what microsoft is good at .

It's also what my bahookie is good at.  ;-)

[JoannaK]

Each time someone puts words Microsoft and security into same sentence it happens..   :-P

Good thing that allows users to load those Softwares they want, bad... well. Any idea how nice it'll be to have Viruses that spread on mobile phones.  :-(  :-(  :-(

Luckily  there are other manufacturers.  ;-)