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Is mobile broadband via a dongle sufficiently secure from eavesdropping to use it for Internet banking?

I am thinking of taking out a Vodafone mobile broa broadband contract here in the UK. Although not essential it would at times be useful to use it for banking/shopping. Would this be risky?

Make sure you use an encrypted setup and you will be fine.
There is not much money to be made cracking private routers. The crooks go for cracking company networks, especially networks that handle lots of credit card transactions. It takes the same amount of work and is a lot more lucractive

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2 Responses to “Is mobile broadband via a dongle sufficiently secure from eavesdropping to use it for Internet banking?”

james B on May 24th, 2009 at 4:08 pm

not really
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johntrottier on May 24th, 2009 at 4:39 pm

Make sure you use an encrypted setup and you will be fine.
There is not much money to be made cracking private routers. The crooks go for cracking company networks, especially networks that handle lots of credit card transactions. It takes the same amount of work and is a lot more lucractive
References :