
Data Cabling Hacks
As was mentioned at the start of this chapter, most hacks on mobile phones involve software hacks
instead of hardware hacks.The very specific hardware combined with the surface-mount technologies
makes it difficult to perform many hardware-based hacks.This section aims to give some insight in
the hacks involved on the software level.Again we use the Nokia phone as an example, but many
other brands of phone present similar possibilities.
Data cables are used to interface a PC with special features of the cell phone.The cables are either
standard cables produced by the manufacturer (for data synchronization, backups, loading new ring ...