Current Events > i have a couple simple questions about cell phone security

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i have reason to suspect that a person i live with may be observing my cell phone activity, mainly my internet use and possibly some facebook messenging

here is all the relevant information:
i use an android, they use an iphone
we both connect to the same wifi router in the house
we never ever have each others phones in each others possesion
i just want to know how practical it is to wirelessly monitor another users internet use from the same wifi, last thing i want to do is stir up some needless drama

Pretty sure all they could really do is see the amount of data being used.

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How would they track what you do from their phone? If anything, the ISP would be the ones to worry about for that kind of thing.

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Make sure you never give your cell phone number to -anyone-

All someone needs is your number in order to place a phone call to your cell phone.

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Super Saiyan 3 Goku posted...

How would they track what you do from their phone? If anything, the ISP would be the ones to worry about for that kind of thing.

ok then how practical is that?

So worst case scenario, they can man in the middle you. Either host a fake wifi that you are connecting to or placing a machine between the wifi and the internet. This service would then accept all your incoming requests, inspect them and then forward them on to where you were sending them.

Everything https is end to end encrypted, meaning they would not be able to see the content of your request or the content of the response. The would still be able to see where you are sending requests too and the size of requests and responses.

If it is not https or otherwise encrypted they would be able to see everything about your requests and responses.

All of this is very unlikely and needs a fair bit of technical know how, at least I've never seen a script kiddie toolbox for this anyway.

haven't you made this topic before?

anyway, if they control the wifi router they can snoop on any traffic using said wifi signal. only way to avoid that is to only use cellular signal or to get a VPN. with a VPN the only thing someone controlling the router could see is encrypted data.

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realnifty1 posted...

Everything https is end to end encrypted, meaning they would not be able to see the content of your request or the content of the response. The would still be able to see where you are sending requests too and the size of requests and responses.

If it is not https or otherwise encrypted they would be able to see everything about your requests and responses.

yeah this.

thats why all those VPN ads saying "THE HACKERS ARE SEEING YOUR BANK ACCOUNT INFO" are full of shit. what bank doesn't use https? unless there is some vulnerability in their certificates or something, they aint seeing shit. but okay lets assume there are sites that are still using http. dont use that site!

anyway its unlikely TC. you also have to think, do they care?

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Can they see the router logs and at least know what websites you visit?
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