On Thu, Dec 28, 2000, Alon Altman wrote about "Re: Sending SMS messages by E-mail +
Sending E-mail from an SMS cellphone":
>..
> P.S. A script to exploit Orange written by Nadav Har'el and improved by me
> is available at my site - http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~alon/cellphone/
>..
Objection! Speculative ;)
My script wasn't to "exploit" Orange: like *all* cellphone providers in
Israel (and probably most providers around the world), Orange provide a
way to send SMS messages to their customers from the Internet. This is
interface between the Internet and the Real World is very important, and as
I said in a previous posting, I didn't get a Cellcom phone until I was
promised that they will soon have one (and indeed they added their site
about a month later). The fact that this gateway is free is nice, but not
the most important thing (i.e., if it had cost 10 agorot per message, it
would add 15 shekels to my monthly bill - I wouldn't go bankrupt), but because
on the Internet you don't have an easy way of charging 10 agorot. Instead,
they charge the users for the privilige of receiving SMS messages (cellcom
no longer does, but I paid 10 shekles a month for that privilige for about
a year).
Anyway, using my script for personal use (sending stuff to your own phone
number, sending a reasonable amount of messages to friends, etc. - all assuming
that you register to their online service and agree to its terms) is surely
"fair use". The "fairness" of automatically registering 500 fake users on
their site and letting 10,000 people share them is a little more questionable,
because you deprive them of the _accountability_ they wanted (if somebody,
say, spams SMSs, they want to have a lead on who did it, and block him;
Actually, they may have blocked you for this exact reason!). But as you know,
my script requires you to register on your own, and to provide it with the
username/password registered on Orange/Cellcom's sites.
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