Geo Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Right, This is purely a thought i had today. I was dropping £300 into Lindsays account today at the Bank, Lindsay is away working in Egypt and back tonight at some point, now before she left i took her account details and fired them into a Note on the Iphone. So went upto the bank teller and she said how can i help you. I said well can i put this cash into my Gf account please, she then asked for the account details. So i handed over the Iphone open at the notes page with Lindsay's details, and she punched in all the numbers. Job Done Now would it be possible to steal info this way, as i could have handed her anything. I mean in a way to pull off any data it could from behind the counter?? Or is there secure measure's in place to stop this happening? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 ultimately the notes app saves things as a form of txt file. If you had a jailbroken iphone then yes, people could steal this information as the SSL/SSH encryption is disabled or opened up (this is how the hacks put the jailbreak on the phone) For a standard iphone etc it should be ok as this encryption is in place. But still, to have a device set to collect information from devices nearby would require some form of connection, wifi, bluetooth etc which would be a lot of setting up. with the introduction of NFC (near field communications) i assume this will be become more of a problem in the future Edit: Fail. Ignore that, i was assuming the other direction from your phone to the counter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 What would you hope to get? They don't have everyone's account details up on the screen so a camera would do no good. And I'm pretty sure unless you're James Bond you can't set up any kind of hacking wifi app that would download their database that you couldn't do just as well from across the room or even easier from home! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 The most you can hope for is a look up the girl's skirt if you set the video camera to record and scare her so she drops it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supra_aero Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 What would you hope to get? They don't have everyone's account details up on the screen so a camera would do no good. And I'm pretty sure unless you're James Bond you can't set up any kind of hacking wifi app that would download their database that you couldn't do just as well from across the room or even easier from home! As per his note. Account details on their own are relatively useless anyway. People will know if you take money from their account (obviously) and it would be easily tracked if money was stolen at branch level. I was a cashier once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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