STRAIGHT OUT OF P800 WHITE PAPER CERTIFICATION A YES.

[Guest DJHope]

Security

Sony Ericsson will provide service through Ericsson Mobility World which will enable application

developers to obtain a certification of their applications from Sony Ericsson. More details will be

provided nearer launch time.

Digital certificates are used to classify the status of applications and media that are to be loaded:

Unsigned No certification or testing :

• The provider of the application has not been assessed

• There is no guarantee that the application is from the advertised

source

• The application may or may not have been tested to ensure that it

works well on the P800, but any claims to that effect are not

independently tested.

Signed &

Certified

Both the software vendor and the application have been tested and certified.

• The application is certified as originating from the named vendor

• The application has been tested to check compatibility with the P800

End users should select certified applications wherever possible, in order to avoid the risk of a

badly written or malicious application creating problems such as deleting data, corrupting the

configuration or preventing other applications from operating correctly.

Mobile Operators may choose to factory-customise the P800 such that only certified applications

can be loaded.

[Guest sebset]

security, security... and buisness revenues for operators

[Guest DJHope]

"security will bring about the death of our freedom"

Cant wait till Windows.NET 2005 when we cant make applications for our PC's! Linux looks orwful tempting :D

[Guest chewie]

Man this is starting to suck!

Looks like our only hope will be Nokia's although they will probably lock those bad boyz down too :D

[Guest DJHope]

Arnt nokia were involoved with symbian os too? bet the network operators pushed them into it tho "just trying to protect our network".

[Guest madu]

Windows.NET 2005? What is that alla bout then? Is that the next OS from MS? Is that only gonna be servers? What's it gonna be on my PC after XP Pro?>

[Guest DJHope]

Nah mate just a joke sorry :D

[Guest arawak]

"security will bring about the death of our freedom"

Cant wait till Windows.NET 2005 when we cant make applications for our PC's! Linux looks orwful tempting :D

Not as much of a joke as you think. MS are doing a version of Windows with security like this in it called Palladium. That's the current name of it but who know's what it will be called upon release.

Apparently, with this Palladium version it will be possible to stop software that hasn't been certified from running. This can apparently be "switched off".

[Guest spacemonkey]

Apparently, with this Palladium version it will be possible to stop software that hasn't been certified from running.  This can apparently be "switched off".

Allowing it to be "switched off" is all marketing and transition. Once the bulk of apps are signed they will remove the off mode so you'll install Palladiam XP Pro.Net and find that all you GPL/GNU/Free software doesn't work. But that's OK, because really you don't need anything more than age of empires and Office surely. :D

[Guest DJHope]

arrr f**k! I hate corporations now weres my linux cd..

C:> deltree C:windows

[Guest Funkyberry]

MS are doing a version of Windows with security like this in it called Palladium.  That's the current name of it but who know's what it will be called upon release.

Windows 2005?

-funkyberry-