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Feature requests and other stuff :-)

Hi Bobby, there will be a place for feature requests on the new FLSMS developer portal as soon as it's launched - watch this space at the end of the month! Ben

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HELP! - Struggling to send 887 sms messages

intellisms is probably easiest to set-up, but either will work. instructions are here: http://wiki.frontlinesms.com/w/index.php/The Continue

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HELP! - Struggling to send 887 sms messages

both destinations are covered by Clickatell and IntelliSMS, so you can pick either on price. http://www.intellisms.co.uk/sms-gateway/cov will need to set up a user account with one of those provide... Continue

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About me (please also add an image to your profile):: Work at Masabi, involved in building the new FrontlineSMS system.
Very excited about people extending Frontline into server systems and building more interactive services through it, using scripting.
Also involved in encrypted SMS systems, and credit card transactions from mobile, such as transport ticket selling frmo the mobile. See our website for more info, or read our blog at http://blog.masabi.com

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At 5:11pm on April 13th, 2009, Ben Whitaker said…: well, although the open source version of FLSMS is completely in the clear, we also produce end-to-end encrypted mobile messaging applications with similar ability, but with the encryption to protect the information, if required.
http://www.masabi.com/tech_encryptME.html

In most of our secure applications the purpose of the encryption is to provide secure banking or credit card payments to the latest international banking security standards, but they would be just as applicable for information exchange.

The benfit of coupling with distributed systems like FLSMS and SMS, and the low-specification phone support of FrontlineForms (the downloadable forms client for old and new phones) is that you don't need expensive smartphones, and you can set the system to work from anywhere you can send SMS.

We have a distributed system architecture that allows safe information exchange between parties via SMS where the central server, mobile network systems and any relaying systems are not a party to the data exchanged, and the vulnerabilities of the GSM A5 encryption algorithms are not an issue to data security, and the system can cope with the dissappearance of the central servers and operate islanded (quite key in most FLSMS deployments).

If you are interested in a further chat, send an email to ben@masabi.com.

At 3:15pm on April 13th, 2009, Ken Backes said…: Looking at both open and encrypted--THE major sticking point for info sharing among gov't entities is security of info (and vulnerability to hacking)...in military terms, the less "permissive" the environment we operate in, the higher security we need.