Exactement! > ... > Alas, e-gold data is currently decrypted by your Telco, which is in the > perfect position for a "Man In The Middle" attack
> There is SSL on > the phones so nobody else will grab your stuff out of the air,... > And even that is not 100%. It takes one lazy tech at the telco and suddenly the whole security goes down the toilet. Especially when it comes to encrypting the signal between telco and cell phone, more often than not, this is not done correctly. Even the channel switching is often not implemented correctly outside Europe and the US. Trouble is, rather than testing security, in may countries telcos test funtionality. So rather than making sure that what they have is water tight they care more about optimum usage of existing facilities - which often means to sign up as many subsribers as possible and generate revenue before thinking about customer satisfaction, let alone security issues. And as you suggested, one crook telco tech could mess up things badly anyway. That would then be the tech who earns less than $500 a months and who knows that if he passes the info on, it will be lamost impossible to show that it was him who did it. Cheers, Robert. budget & privacy website hosting http://www.cyberica.net budget & privacy domain registrations + mail http://www.u2planet.com/cfdomaintrust.html --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
