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Mobile Laptop wifi Card Snooping Security?

  • 23-06-2007 06:57PM
    #1
    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,769 CMod ✭✭✭✭


    If you were to obtain a mobile wi fi card from your telephone carrier for your laptop, are you more or less secure from snoops? I would assume that this is a different form of communication technology than that used by snoops trying to packet sniff your communications between your laptop and a wifi router in a hotspot?


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  • #2
    jhegarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,131 ✭✭✭jhegarty


    Are you talking about a 3g datacard ?


  • #3
    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,769 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    jhegarty wrote:
    Are you talking about a 3g datacard ?
    I think so, but not sure. This technology is new to me. In any case, I would be connecting to the web using a wifi card supplied by a telephone carrier (just like a mobile phone), essentially texting, web surfing, and whatnot anyplace in the USA where their signal coverage was available, either via satellite or cell towers.

    Although they told me that my communications would be encrypted, I would guess that if you could snoop these communications, you could also snoop mobile phone communications?


  • #4
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    Snooping mobile phone communications is no easy task, AFAIK you need an exact replica of the mobile phone SIM you want to snoop and some very expensive equipment. I presume it is very similar for 3G data-cards.


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