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Krisnatharok
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Re: Now drones are being used to expose bank details and passwords

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.
HarryH3
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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.

Krisnatharok
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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?

Blake