What your cellphone operator knows about you

What did we learn?

If you're gonna redtube dodgy categories, use wifi!
 
FlashSA said:
What did we learn?

If you're gonna redtube dodgy categories, use wifi!
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LOL.. you just shifting the content monitoring from mobile telecom operator to ISP which could be the mobile operator ;) (MTN & Vodacom *DSL). In SA, all coms is monitored, logged etc to be in compliance with laws. If you want some sort of privacy you need to use a vpn
 
Garyvdh said:
So basically everything?
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Hardly, this article has made the mistake of saying a cellphone number/phone is a person.

They don't know who you called, they only know my phone called that phone - they can not say who made the call and who received the call.

For example, I own 2 phones and one is used by my wife.

But we all knew this already? You think that writing your details and being RICA'd wouldn't be stored by operators?
 
Why would one care what they know about you? Has there ever been a case where someone was compromised by what a cellphone network knows about a client?

It's like Facebook - they own everything you post, but if you don't post compromising stuff, why worry?
 
You guys are assuming that they have scruples and won't just eavesdrop on you for whatever reasons. ;)
 
I raised this issue over 10 years ago. The access I used to have to personal call data at MTN, including analysis, as scary. I could type in a caller's phone number when they called me and get a plot of their home and work cell locations as we spoke. (they've tightened up a lot since then)
 
For browsing i think i'm going to VPN right on the edge of my home network
 
krycor said:
LOL.. you just shifting the content monitoring from mobile telecom operator to ISP which could be the mobile operator ;) (MTN & Vodacom *DSL). In SA, all coms is monitored, logged etc to be in compliance with laws. If you want some sort of privacy you need to use a vpn
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Do they know what's inside SSL traffic?

If so, VPN cannot help you.
 
Impulse_One said:
Do they know what's inside SSL traffic?

If so, VPN cannot help you.
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Its not that hard assuming I can get a CA cert on your device which is pretty easy when I am supplying you with said device. Look at what Lenovo and Superfish did...

Anyway, google deep packet SSL inspection. Our corporate network is flooded with it and access to TOR and outgoing VPNs are blocked which means ZERO privacy for end users.

EDIT: also, this technology can scale massively allowing me to use it on whatever I want, if I was an ISP or telcom I could easily and transparently offload traffic onto such a device to inspect it. Reporting is pretty insane also, some small examples of stuff that we pick up:

- Certain IM clients
- Google search terms
- Files which are transfered over services like FTP
 
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