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
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
MITM is (as far as currently known) only possible if they have a CA
you trust, as far as the lower layer encryption goes:
GSM (2G/GPRS) has been hacked and for all intents and purposes is
unencrypted these days if the person has the right reception
equipment/hack phone.
UMTS (3G/HSPA) has much
Mord Behar mord...@gmail.com writes:
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
E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il writes:
UMTS (3G/HSPA) has much stronger encryption which afaik has not yet
been cracked, I would expect newer generations (4G/LTE) to be even
more secure
It is reportedly possible to jam the 3G/4G signal so that handsets will
fall back to 2G...
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2013/12/6 Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org:
E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il writes:
UMTS (3G/HSPA) has much stronger encryption which afaik has not yet
been cracked, I would expect newer generations (4G/LTE) to be even
more secure
It is reportedly possible to jam the 3G/4G signal
http://xkcd.com/538/
Get over it - this whole discussion is a waste of bits IMHO. Either you
trust your bank and the controls put in place to make it comply or pay on
failure, or you don't bank with them. The rest is as relevant as
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote:
http://xkcd.com/538/
Get over it - this whole discussion is a waste of bits IMHO. Either you
trust your bank and the controls put in place to make it comply or pay on
failure, or you don't bank with them. The rest is
