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Not total privacy since the network knows who's on both ends, or at least that you're on one end, but as long as you can tunnel encrypted traffic over it via a
by webXL 11y ago
Not total privacy since the network knows who's on both ends, or at least that you're on one end, but as long as you can tunnel encrypted traffic over it via a hotspot, I'm not sure how that could be cracked.
- shostack 11y agoOne way that I've been wondering about is all these new keyboards coming on the market. Things like Swype, Swiftkey etc. They have cloud storage for storing data to feed predictive algorithms, but it essentially becomes a cloud-based keystroke logger. So you may be sending encrypted traffic via hotspot, but your keyboard process running in the background has the raw input data and is feeding that to a server. I'd love to read a more detailed writeup on the security of such apps, which ones are trusted (ie. only using local encrypted storage, no phoning home), etc.