Botom line: It's all about trust Your ISP/Cellular Provider can recored and monitor your traffic, I don't sure about MIM - but they can do that if they have the right equipment (some thing like Internet Rimon doing with HTTPS sites)
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Mord Behar <mord...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, we did it. We finally got an Android phone. > And of course the second thing my wife asked me was "Can I use this for > banking?" > We only use the online banking services from within our home network which > is (pretty) secure. > The real diference between using a mobile phone and using a laptop is that > first hop, from the device to the tower. I know that on the laptop it is > secure, there are no man in the middle attacks since I control every device > on the network (and I'm assuming that from my router to the bank there is > no MiM attack either, probably a safe assumption). But what about from the > phone to the tower? Are all communications between the phone and the tower > encrypted? Are some devices and/or carriers more secure than others? Are > some bank's apps more secure than others? How about just using the web > interface from a browser? > I know that this is only vaguely Linux-related, but I'm sure the people > here have the experience, knowledge and insight to help me out. > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > -- *Rabin*
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