Thread: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
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yablacky is offline yablacky
2012-07-12 , 20:15
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#1213
smscon 0.10.6-1 has been queued for loading into fremantle extras-devel repository.
  • FIX: COM_ALARM no longer restricted to wav-files. Plays (almost) any sound file type now.
  • NEW: The smscon command has a new option to establish sound files to be used as alarm:
    Code:
    smscon -alarm [ref] filename
    The optional 'ref' keyword tells smscon to refer the file only rather than to copy it into its own storage. Since sound files are large, ref is handy while testing several sounds. You should not use 'ref' to establish the final sound. A filename of '--default' restores standard alarm sound.
  • FIX: Some SMS commands (e.g. silencing the phone, etc) did not work properly if the currently running smscon_daemon was started on phone boot. Since last version this start mode is used for normal start/stop operations as well. As a consequence the bug comes up more often and is fixed now (session dbus was not available for daemon).
  • NEW: New commands COM_SILENTON and COM_SILENTOFF to explicitly silence the phone and to undo silencing (COM_SILENTOFF restores volumes being active before COM_SILENTON).
  • CHANCED: New SIM cards are no longer authorized by default (this happened in the past after smscon sent notification about new SIM). A SIM card must now be authorized explicitly by using smscon-editor or by command line:
    Code:
    smscon -add imsi
    This is not a new command but you have to use it explicitly now. Btw. to revoke authorization of current SIM card use
    Code:
    smscon -remove imsi
  • NEW: A stolen mode. Smscon operates in stolen mode automatically if the SIM card is not authorized (e.g. is a new SIM) or if the SIM PIN of an authorized SIM was not correct or if there is no SIM card et all. For those regularly using their N900 without SIM card there is a new STOLENIFNOSIM user setting to change no-SIM behaviour.
  • NEW: New command COM_STOLEN to enable stolen mode explicitly. This command may be used in case the phone got lost or stolen with authorized SIM inserted and valid PIN code already entered. The command revokes authorization from all SIM cards even your own SIM that is now being used by finder or thief. In case you got your phone back, you have to grant authorization for your SIM card again.
  • FIX: Keyboard slider detection and battery charge info is now sent in stolen mode, only.
  • NEW: Rotated smscon.log file. The smscon.log file is now limited to roughly 100 KB size. Log will flood into smscon.log.1, smscon.log.2 etc until smscon.log.5 files. Older log entries will be removed. This ensures that smscon occupies a limited and deterministic size of disk space only (round about 600KB).
  • FIX: A bug in decoding incoming SMS messages has been fixed. The bug leads to failures in command detection. Happend to SMS messages of 7 chars length (and multiples of 7).
  • NEW: Delete incoming SMS from chat history if it was a valid smscon command.

Further notes:
  • Deletion of incoming SMS from chat does not yet prevent the SMS to show up temporarily as "just arrived SMS". Unfortunately.
  • TrueCrypt: The idea is as follows:
    smscon provides a new command line option to supply a password-B to access encrypted data (e.g. mount container or partition). This password-B is generated from a password-A (provided by regular user) which is somehow modified/signed using the IMSI (and perhaps IMEI). Password-A may be stored plain text on phone. It is needless without having entered the correct SIM PIN because IMSI is only available with SIM PIN.

    Given this, the correct SIM PIN could open the phone completely including access to TrueCrypt data. Without PIN the phone offers only irrelevant or encrypted data.

    Since IMSI in this concept becomes a key to encrypted data, smscon 0.10.6-1 will no longer store IMSI codes to detect authorized SIM cards.
  • I will update wiki after getting some feedback here and - may be - making some corrections.
 

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