said by StuartMW:You made a valid point. I guess we should distinguish security and privacy.
If by security you mean the ability to prevent hacking that maybe possible--up to a point.
As for privacy you have none with a cell phone. Bob et al listen in on and/or track them.
BTW I'm talking about consumer cell phones. Military and/or secure gummint phones are exempt from the above.
I agree that cell phones can be tracked as compared to wired phones. But then again wired phones don't move much. But Bob knows if you have a wired phone and Bob knows how to get to it. I see real time tracking by Bob as a potential problem if Bob is going to ignore the Constitution IE not obtaining warrants first. On the other hand replicating your positions after the fact in an investigation does give Bob a tool he didn't have until one got a cell phone.
I am not aware that tapping is any more prevalent or easier on cell phones than on land lines.
On the issue of privacy I do have a question. Is a smart phone any more revealing than a dumb phone (IE real time tracking and line tapping)?
Now back to data security. It may well become a bigger problem in the future but almost everything I read today talks in terms like "might be", "may in the future be used for", "could become" etc. I don't see a lot of information that say that virus and hacking of cell phones is even close to the problem that is going on with normal computer use today.
To be truthful I am beginning to feel I'd be safer today doing my banking and etail shopping via cell phone as compared to using the computer.
But thanks for helping to separate out the issue between privacy VS data security on smart phones.
