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Colin Dunstan · 02-11-2005, 09:50 AM

This is one of the reasons why convergence is not necessarily the best solution. A virus or worm on a cell phone can do a lot of more (financial) damage than on a PDA.

I have no problems installing and trying out new software on my PDA; yes, malicious code could wipe out my PDA or try to sniff out my WiFi WPA key, but that's about it. On the other hand, I have never installed any software on my cell phone, except for doing one firmware upgrade. I couldn't stand the idea that some virus would do malicious phone calls on my expenses.

02-11-2005, 09:50 AM	#3
Colin Dunstan Is papyrophobic! Posts: 1,926 Karma: 1009999 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: USA Device: Dell Axim	This is one of the reasons why convergence is not necessarily the best solution. A virus or worm on a cell phone can do a lot of more (financial) damage than on a PDA. I have no problems installing and trying out new software on my PDA; yes, malicious code could wipe out my PDA or try to sniff out my WiFi WPA key, but that's about it. On the other hand, I have never installed any software on my cell phone, except for doing one firmware upgrade. I couldn't stand the idea that some virus would do malicious phone calls on my expenses.