Na also - kaum startet die Diskussion, schon gibt es erste reale Szenarien: (via Bruce Schneiers Blog)
SMS Denial-of-Service Attack
SMS Denial-of-Service Attack
This is a clever piece of research. Turns out you can jam cell phones with SMS messages. Text messages are transmitted on the same channel that is used to set up voice calls, so if you flood the network with one, then the other can't happen. The researchers believe that sending 165 text messages a second is enough to disrupt all the cell phones in Manhattan.
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