SMS Security

I found today a new blog to read. It's titled Red Tape, it can be found on MSNBC's site and its purpose is to unmask government bureaucracy, corporate sneakiness and outright scam artists. A lofty goal from a site owned by General Electric but anyway...

A post today talks about whether or not the SMS messages that you send can be "captured" and then read by others. In one word: yes. Its a fascinating read. One part that liked was:

Cell phones and pagers also can be “cloned,” meaning the clone will receive a copy of every text message sent to the original device. In the most famous case of pager cloning, alleged Israeli organized crime figure Assaf Waknine obtained a clone of the pager carried by a Los Angeles police detective who was investigating him.

Read all about it for yourself. You will make sure that you never text a bank account or credit card number again.