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Re: Three Texas Men With Cellphones Arrested on Terrorist Charges

Mark Crispin (MRC@cac.washington.edu)
Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:32:55 -0700

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Mr Joseph Singer wrote:

> You said it yourself. Reflashing is trivial on most *other* phones.
> From what I understand reflashing Motorola is fairly easy. It's not
> so for Nokia unless you have invested in the specialized equipment,
> dongles, clips etc. to do it. Considering the value of the typical
> phones used for TracFone or Net10 it's a lot of work for little
> profit.

Certainly that is the case for a single phone. But in bulk, I can
easily see how the investment could pay off. I took a look at
TracFone's website and a fair number of their el cheapo $20 phones are
Motorolas.

-- Mark --

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