Wireless Devices a Security Threat Overseas?
JJ Green writes on WTOP.com:
The intelligence community has expressed concern that when traveling to some foreign countries with wireless communications devices, it's possible your email may be read, your address book may be downloaded and your phone calls may be monitored, WTOP has learned.More here.
This is because when you fly overseas and turn your wireless phone back on after the flight, it's no longer operating on your company's network -- it's linked to a foreign network.
Government hackers can open your address book and download all the information. They can also listen to your phone calls. And according to U.S. intelligence sources, one country has been known to try to infect wireless devices with viruses.
When you get back to the U.S. and plug back into your company's network, the intelligence agencies of those countries may have access to your company's network.
Note: This has got to be one of the most creative bits of fear-mongering and misinformation I have ever heard. Can this somehow be an effort by U.S. Customs & Border Protection to attempt to justify their searches & seizures of personal electronics? If so, even more reason to sue DHS to halt this chicanery. -ferg
posted by Fergie @ 2/16/2008 11:35:00 AM
1 Comments:
I think they just don't want any other country snooping on our communications -- they want to be the only ones.
Interesting how when other countries access our communications, they're "hackers," but when our government does it, it's... um... to protect us?
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