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Re: Phone Switches + telephone banking etc
From: hellNbak <hellnbak () nmrc org>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 17:34:45 -0400 (EDT)
I have done some playing with some higher end 2.4G scanners here in Canada and find it very easy to not only listen in on various phone calls but also record the tones. I am unsure of what effect playing them back would have as that is a little too far over the line for my liking... Dont do banking via a normal cellular or cordless phone On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 quentyn () fotango com wrote:
if you phone HSBC in the UK and ask to change your "security number" they will ask you if you are on a cordless phone or a mobile. Remember the "old" cordless phones that could be eaves dropped accidentally ? ( or with a scanner from maplins ) Now DECT phones are all the rage I suppose the question is irrelevant ( also GSM mobiles are supposedly encrypted anyway) I just phoned HSBC's telephone banking division and their policy is that "you should not use cordless or mobile phones when setting or resetting security features" though they couldn't tell me where to find a doc on this. My original take on this issue was merely that the key press records are a hell of a load more sensitive than people believe. Q
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- Re: Phone Switches + telephone banking etc quentyn (Jun 07)
- RE: Phone Switches + telephone banking etc ash (Jun 08)
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- RE: Phone Switches + telephone banking etc Vachon, Scott (Jun 07)
- Re: Phone Switches + telephone banking etc Dave Booth (Jun 07)
- RE: Phone Switches + telephone banking etc Tony Camp (Jun 07)
- RE: Phone Switches + telephone banking etc Mike Theriault (Jun 09)
- RE: Phone Switches + telephone banking etc ash (Jun 09)
- RE: Phone Switches + telephone banking etc Kayne Ian (Softlab) (Jun 10)