As a recent iPhone purchaser, and consumer of security technologies [Software firewall, Hardware firewall, Antivirus, VPN, TOR, anti-spam, creator of anti-spam mail server, and so on with their various security levels], I have one key ability that I don’t seem to have with my iPhone unless it is communicating with my WiFi : Monitoring Packets.
You see, with any communication device that is over the air, or on a wire, you can monitor the packets of information that are floating around. Grab enough, you can decode a persons password or where they surf. A frightening prospect for some to even hear is possible. But it is possible. But I can’t put anything immediately onto my iPhone to monitor packet integrity. Just what is being sent, and to whom? I just thought about this because I was considering the idea of a single application for all of the sites I traffic.
Well, Mint and PageOnce do that, with PageOnce going well into the realm of what I wanted to do. The problem here is that I want to know what gets transmitted, and why do I have subscribe to a monthly or yearly service if the application is the sole source of storage [with my Sync being the sole backup source]. If anything is transmitted, it creates a massive security hole, and these unified login applications will never get my service. I’ll pay $30 for an application that has single login, and local [only] storage of encrypted data.
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