Word: serialization
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...card, to prevent further calls from that number. The handset, however, will remain operational if a new sim card is inserted. So current attempts to combat the use of stolen cell phones are also focusing on the handset's IMEI, or international mobile equipment identifier, an individual serial number for each phone that is transmitted when a call is made from that handset. Mobile phone operators could pool information and stop calls from snatched cell phones by barring IMEIs reported as stolen...
...they're doing, IMEIs can be almost as easy to alter as they are to access. Although some operators already bar stolen handsets from their networks, others say IMEI-based measures are ineffective, because criminals with access to the right software can hack into stolen phones and change the serial number, possibly to duplicate a legitimate IMEI. Block-ing stolen IMEIs looks "like a nice gesture towards the customers, but has no real impact," says Petr Stoklasa of the Czech Republic's RadioMobil. He says RadioMobil will embrace IMEI-based measures once manufacturers come up with serial numbers that...
...spite of initial resistance, operators in some countries are coming together to pool information on IMEIs. In France, the country's three main operators have announced they will create a single database for serial numbers by June in order to deter theft. In Britain, BT Cellnet and Vodafone agreed to join other national operators in utilizing IMEI-based security measures: over the next six weeks, the U.K.'s four major networks will start to exchange the IMEIs of stolen handsets. Ministers are also to introduce laws making it an offence to reconfigure phones...
...contains Brady's take on man's disposition as it relates to crime. To Brady's way of thinking, a killer may lurk within us all: therefore, responding to a murderous impulse may simply be being honest to oneself. In the second part, Brady analyzes the perpetrators of 11 serial killings, including American Ted Bundy, executed in 1989 for murdering three women and suspected of slaying over 30 more, and "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, imprisoned for murdering 13 women in northern England...
...crimes will not discover it in The Gates of Janus. Nor will they find many insights in his lengthy double-speak. Perhaps the real surprise about this book, first published late last year, is that it has sold enough copies to warrant a reprint. Brady holds that the "serial killer is ... your alter ego, that facet of character you strive so hard to conceal and repress." He may believe it; but readers of this ugly, unpersuasive book certainly...