XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.os.linux, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: catwheezel@operamail.com   
      
   On 2017-04-23, Frank Slootweg  wrote:   
   > [Late response. Responding only, because AFAIK, "Tomos Davies"   
   > hasn't.]   
   >   
   > Jeff Liebermann  wrote:   
   >> On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 08:59:15 -0000 (UTC), Tomos Davies   
   >>  wrote:   
   > [...]   
   >> >As stated, the problem is just to make it so that Windows or Linux   
   >> >can "mount" the entire mobile device, whether it's Android or iOS,   
   >> >and without adding anything on the computer (because that's what   
   >> >gives the solution its universality).   
   >>   
   >> Umm...  I visit your house, wave my smartphone in the air, it   
   >> connects and mounts automagically.  Now your Windoze or Linux server   
   >> can suck everything out of my phone?  I don't think I like that.   
   >> Perhaps you might want to rethink how you are going to use this   
   >> thing.   
   >   
   >   Your smartphone will only connect if you *let* it connect to his   
   >   SSID and *give* the correct password/key.   
   >   
   >   Even if it passes this, *your* phone has to start a FTP server (or   
   >   have it running) and he has to figure out the IP address which his   
   >   DHCP server has assigned to your phone. That's of course doable, but   
   >   not trivial.   
   >   
   >   If you let all that happen, you'll get what's coming to you! :-)   
      
   I suppose there are people who set their mobile phones to automatically   
   connect to any unsecured WiFi that comes within range - and use the DNS   
   server supplied by it too.  After all, it must be alright to do that or   
   such settings wouldn't be possible ...   
      
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