Thanks Lee, do you think that would apply to logon and passwords for places like Amazon, eBay, iTunes, J.C. Penny, Best Buy, etc. etc. We send our info. to a lot of places and your class of a few years ago where you wanted to show your colleague at the University that you "could" capture his sensitive info has stuck with me and I now do much more shopping on line than in stores, just this morning I have already ordered two products from InCase, it's my way of life and last night it struck me concerning the security of 3g, wireless data is floating around everywhere and I didn't know if they were secure from point A to point B.
John On Nov 17, 2011, at 9:01 AM, Lee Larson wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
