I have a question that I am guessing someone on the list will be able to answer. Today a lady was asking me about her iPhone 4 that she had just purchased and wondered it her bank had an App that allowed access to her accounts, I told her how to search this out.
Then I told her not to access the account where others were around as there could be a sniffer (if that's what they are called) and they could pick up her logon and password and other information. I then wondered how remote you had to be to consider it safe. I did a search and most of the answers came in at between 250 feet to 500 feet, I guess they are meaning you are pushing the info. that far and outside that range others would have a hard time picking up what you had just typed. I can understand this if you are going wireless to a router in your home or a coffee shot and it is then connected to a router that is ethernet to the bank, but what if you are on 3G? What far reaching ranges are you talking about there with your sensitive information? 3G doesnt' connect to an ethernet cable, it goes to some cell tower and is then sent to the bank so the whole trip is wireless, traveling miles? I logged onto my bank to transfer funds while we were in Delaware, using the 3G of an iPad, so can those in the know enlighten me on how this works as far as our security? Many thanks. John _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
