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Originally Posted by okyoureabeast
Odd, I must have missed it. Here is my response when it was posted:
You don't have to heed my warnings, but keep them in mind. I've met a handful of people who would have no qualms doing this add to the fact i've demoed something like this for a project in one of my computer science classes. Be careful, nothing is worse than identity theft.
Connecting to a VPN would shield you from such an attack.
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And not just any VPN. It needs to have a strong public-private key arrangement to prevent the man-in-the-middle. SSL isn't going to cut it, that's for sure.
I think I can trust the telcos pretty well. Probably anyone with an open connection isn't going to have the knowledge of how to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, but there's always the notion of a honey pot.