Short Message Service Security

Short Message Service (SMS) has become a very popular way for mobile phone users to send and receive simple text messages to each other using mobile phones and portable devices. With SMS, users could send to or receive from a single person, or several persons, personal messages, email notifications, information services, job dispatches, stock alerts and so on. With the advent of more powerful PDA-like mobile devices that come with sharper screens and convenient text input methods, SMS is now more and more common among mobile phone users. This paper provides a basic overview of SMS, and discusses the security issues around the use of SMS.

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