Talk:Santtu

[JSpaith] I made some minor nit pick edits to some wording here and there. Some high level comments on the "1. An Attack in 2014: A Walk Through"

In saying "have data access" - do you mean Internet access?

"Although desktop email software has been protected against this type of auto-emailing for multiple years, the equivalent cell phone software has not been and Joe’s plan succeeds." -- I'm on Windows CE and I take issue with this. We're paranoid about security at all layers and I hope by 2014 we'll have low-hanging fruit like this fixed :). The policy maker probably won't care and you don't have to change this, but I want to go on the record here.

"Joe takes a list of vulnerable cell phone numbers he’s been creating" - Not quite sure how Joe is doing this? Does he have a scanner or something or get the list from other hacker buddies?

General: I think you want to personalize the other end of the story more - i.e. the politician getting hit. Suppose we have a super-honest, 80 year old politician who has a disease that's not his fault (i.e. not venereal). Maybe because of advances in genetics we know now there's a 95% chance he'll get alzimers in the next 10 years, even though he's very sharp right now. This info is leaked 2 days before the election, causing voters to reject him and favor a dishonest candidate who happens to be Joe's uncle.

[JSpaith] This is the introduction to the paper as a whole, and not just your section - correct? If it's the intro to the aper as a whole, you may want to have a 50,000 foot overview of where we're going. This is really a Caroline policy-paper type question, but in English class papers they always made us do the super-high level overview.