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planet
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2014-Mar-21 12:20 pm
Now drones are being used to expose bank details and passwordsSeems concerning. » www.dailymail.co.uk/scie ··· -FI.html"Now drones are being used to expose bank details and passwords: Hackers manage to access 150 phones an hour through Wi-Fi" |
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Another advantage of our new technical society...NOT. Once a Pandora's box has opened, there's no knowing how far whatever is in it will spread. Nothing is safe today, as long as it is computerized, and what isn't. But this is not new. If the so called good guys have it for so called good use, the bad guys are going to have it too with obvious consequences. |
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 vaxvmsferroequine fan
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vaxvms
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2014-Mar-21 4:33 pm
Maybe there will be a resurgence in the art of letter writing and the use of snail mail.
No more TLA's. |
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 BlackbirdBuilt for Speed
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said by vaxvms:Maybe there will be a resurgence in the art of letter writing and the use of snail mail.
No more TLA's. Except... the art of intercepting and covertly opening mail has been around far, far longer than digital interception, dating back at least to the ancient days of Italian city-states and their intrigues involving the Vatican of old. Those guys could even fake a wax seal that had been broken. Truly, there is nothing new under the sun. |
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 KrisnatharokPC Builder, Gamer
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This has nothing to do drones and everything to do with smartphone vulnerabilities. I guess the title "windowless van steals your banking info" isn't sexy enough. |
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 DownTheShorePray for Ukraine
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Well, good thing I keep the WiFi turned off on my phone, then.... |
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vaxvmsferroequine fan
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said by Blackbird:Except... the art of intercepting and covertly opening mail has been around far, far longer than digital interception... Perhaps, but pre-digital it wasn't quickly and easily done to ALL mail sent for delivery. The NSA and friends have been perusing almost ALL bits sent and received for quite a while and there's nothing obvious for Joe Average User to even suspect they've been violated. |
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BlackbirdBuilt for Speed
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said by vaxvms:said by Blackbird:Except... the art of intercepting and covertly opening mail has been around far, far longer than digital interception... Perhaps, but pre-digital it wasn't quickly and easily done to ALL mail sent for delivery. The NSA and friends have been perusing almost ALL bits sent and received for quite a while and there's nothing obvious for Joe Average User to even suspect they've been violated. So Joe Average might be well-advised to assume all his electronic messaging is being at least stored somewhere for 'future reference,' for when a spook applies the appropriate kind of filtering to the giant database. In days of old, wise letter writers applied subtle, robust encryption to their letters if they didn't want prying eyes to discern certain content; modern messagers might consider something along the same lines. Timeless rule: if its privacy really matters, encrypt it. |
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vaxvmsferroequine fan
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2014-Mar-21 7:57 pm
Most Joe Average User are not technoweenies. They believe that anything they get in email or read on the web has to be true. To these folks encryption has something to do with a stone chamber or vault used as a burial place |
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BlackbirdBuilt for Speed
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said by vaxvms:Most Joe Average User are not technoweenies. They believe that anything they get in email or read on the web has to be true. To these folks encryption has something to do with a stone chamber or vault used as a burial place In which case, they and everything about them become fodder for the databases and analysts... end of the matter. The end, that is, until a terrible mis-concatenation of filter inputs pops their name up on an analyst's screen as intimately associated with the views of certain "persons of interest"... in which case, they may be left to struggle in proving their innocence against 'unstated' accusations sealed by a FISA 'court'. But we all know that kind of thing would never happen in the good ol' US of A... |
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said by Krisnatharok:This has nothing to do drones and everything to do with smartphone vulnerabilities. I guess the title "windowless van steals your banking info" isn't sexy enough. Exactly my thought. When I read this story I instantly realized that they only used drones to make the headline more appealing. A guy walking around with a backpack filled with the same hardware could collect the same information.  |
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KrisnatharokPC Builder, Gamer
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said by HarryH3:said by Krisnatharok:This has nothing to do drones and everything to do with smartphone vulnerabilities. I guess the title "windowless van steals your banking info" isn't sexy enough. Exactly my thought. When I read this story I instantly realized that they only used drones to make the headline more appealing. A guy walking around with a backpack filled with the same hardware could collect the same information. And should be scarier, because the FAA isn't going to get involved with regulating hacker backpacks. Maybe they will push a fright line of giving cops Xray goggles to see you naked find the hacker backpacks! |
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The only advantage of a drone is I can now MITM some rich dude on the 108th floor and forget the peasants on the street. Not that we couldn't do it before, but now we can focus on them via proximity.
Have I ever mentioned how much I love wireless signals of any type?
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