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Re: Three Texas Men With Cellphones Arrested on Terrorist Charges

Mark Crispin (MRC@cac.washington.edu)
Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:29:25 -0700

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Mr Joseph Singer wrote:

> The only way you can use handsets that were for Net10 or TracFone
> outside of their systems is if you have them reflashed with generic
> non-Net10 or TracFone specific firmware.

Why would that be a problem? Is there some reason that makes these
phones particularly difficult to reflash? Reflashing is trivial on
most other phones.

-- Mark --

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