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While waiting for ten minutes on "hold" to make an appointment with my local branch of Scotiabank, I had time read through the new "Digital Services Agreement. Most of the eighteen pages were unremarkable, but a couple of things stood out.
When you click "Accept", you are agreeing to not give your password to police if they ask!
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and safekeeping of your Card, Card Number, Username, and Electronic Signature. ... These responsibilities include:
- not voluntarily disclosing your Electronic Signature to anyone else at any time, including any family member, friend, law enforcement agency, or financial institution employee;
You're also agreeing to not use "public" wifi:
(These responsibilities include:) using your own private wireless data connection, and avoiding use of public Wi-Fi services, when you are using the Digital Services;
This of course is from a bank that still refuses to allow Uppercase letters or Special characters in a password.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday September 29 2016, @08:37PM
So is every other connected device to some degree, realistically, the risk is tiny.
Funny thing is, other than early versions of windows directly to the internet, the script-kiddies are far from the most successful hackers in the world.
And as far as "vulnerable to kiddies the minute they are turned on", that just doesn't happen.
Have you actually tried to ping another phone on Cellular? Even if the owner looks up and tells you his IP and you have the same carrier connected to the same tower, you aren't going to ping it, let alone scan it.
You might be more at risk from the kiddies once you connect to wifi, but on cellular, not so much.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.