OT: Cellular banking

[Rabin Yasharzadehe]

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 <mordbe0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 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 that from my router to the bank there is
> no MiM attack either, probably a safe assumption). But what about from the
> phone to the tower? Are all communications between the phone and the tower
> encrypted? Are some devices and/or carriers more secure than others? Are
> some bank's apps more secure than others? How about just using the web
> interface from a browser?
> I know that this is only vaguely Linux-related, but I'm sure the people
> here have the experience, knowledge and insight to help me out.
> Thanks.
>
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