Fake Cell Phone Towers

[Vulcan]

You most likely do not own a private copper line directly to the bank so yes, at any router your connection to the bank can be intercepted and routed through an attackers computer. This router most commonly is the one you own yourself. Home routers have been found to be the number one vulnerability in modern day networks. Most people never even change the admin passwords and leave the boxes at default settings.

you forgot to mention the bit where your browser spazes out if the certificate is not valid, or in the case of apps they just won't connect. In fact Android OS will even warn you if it sees such stuff going on (from experience, as I run HTTPS decrypt at home and on several client networks).

[MrRiplEy[H]]

of course you are right about that.  but please do explain how somebody using wifi or fake cell towers somebody can intercept my banking info when I use neither to do banking?



semp

I never claimed that. It was your own invention. Stop the useless argument please.

[Brooke]

The Oakland County Michigan Sheriff Dept. is using them.

shamus

Holy cow.  Do you live in Oakland County?  I grew up in Troy.

[Brooke]

Anyone who is so bored as to want to eavesdrop on my phone conversations can help themselves.

Seriously

People say that.  But . . .

There are over 23,000 pages of laws at the federal level, and more at the state and local level -- a blizzard of regulations.  Organizations (including the government) have tried to count the number of criminal laws and have failed -- they can't even count them (see http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304319804576389601079728920)!  Chances are (see for example http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594035229/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410158597&sr=8-1&keywords=people+break+laws+every+day) that in the normal course of your life, you violate laws without ever knowing it.  All that is needed is someone with information and the motivation to go after you.

Sure, if you never in your life get in anyone's way, the odds of that are small.  But, donate or belong to the wrong group, be too vocal in support of the wrong cause, compete with some business or group or piss someone off with some inside pull, and it can be a different story.

There's a reason the Constitution has protections for privacy, due process, etc., and prohibitions against unreasonable search, etc.

[Shamus]

Holy cow.  Do you live in Oakland County?  I grew up in Troy.

Grew up in Rochester, been in the county all my life.