On Nov 16, 2011, at 11:25 PM, John Robinson wrote: > 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.
Any bank program would use a strongly encrypted connection, so anyone snooping the traffic would just see gibberish. I doubt even the NSA can eavesdrop on the kinds of encryption banks are likely to use. _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
