Are You Confident Your Mobile Phone Comes with Adequate Security and Privacy Technology?

Question

Your cell phone belongs to you -- and you only. But sometimes, stuff happens. And you have a strange feeling that the communication that goes on in your phone isn't exclusively for your eyes only.

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Are you confident in your mobile phone's security and privacy settings? Or do you worry that the government is reading your text messages and emails? What if you had a messaging service that featured "military grade" encryption? Would you be more likely to use it?

Answer these questions and more in our survey about cell phones and privacy. We want to know what you have to say.

Answer 1

with a gps, a microphone AND a camera that can be turned on via the cellular connection...

i would not trust this thing as far as i can throw it.




which is what i would do if i wanted privacy.

Answer 2

Who knows, maybe!

Answer 3

No, it is just that you are paranoid.

Answer 4

No, your master will do anything to counter his opposition.

Answer 5

As I said, you are paranoid, so you can stop with the usual inane conservative rhetoric. No one cares what you say.

Answer 6

Do you really think anyone CARES what you spew out. By the way Did you ever look at the raves I get? Stop drinking the liberal Kool Aid and get a life.

Answer 7

I would say you are an ignorant liberal As----, who doesn't know his a-- from a **** in the ground. Liberals are a disgusting bunch of America hating idiots.

Answer 8

No, it's not because you are a conservative but it does explain the drone over your neighbor hood.

Answer 9

I've never had reason to believe that electronic communication was secure. It never has been.

Answer 10

NO and more NO. But then again, I use it so infrequently and mostly for emergencies and for my wife to remind me what to get on my way home from work, so if they are listening, I do hope that they will not consider me a security threat to the nation.

Answer 11

Oh, please ..
built in are GPS, trackers, camera ..
microphone and it does denote when you are roam vice on home network too ..
(as well as accounting for your data usage levels)

Who trusts anything that databases everything?

Answer 12

Automobiles are next and they are already drafting legislation in WDC

Answer 13

YEP ..
those insidious things are invading every part of our lives ..
and the ones with the claws in the seats are most enamored of them too ..
for what better way to CONTROL others ..
than by LIMITING their ability to do anything?

Answer 14

Orwell's 1984 is coming, slowly but surely.

Answer 15

I've seen first hand it isn't.

Answer 16

there's no certainty at all about secured privacy on any device what so ever, that's the agenda 911 was orchestrated this country is under threat by ruthless politicians,, who ?
wasn't transparency one of Obama's campaign issues...most of us do not enjoy the concept of our constitution being altered for any reason especially when we're not certain of our leaders intent it all seems to be headed for a dictatorship it might mean torture abuse no human rights something like China or North Korea one can be executed on a whim !

Answer 17

Too bad that the idea of a dictatorship was uttered by the guy who designed the Patriot Act.

Yes, George W. Bush has stated he'd prefer to be a dictator many times:

"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier." Describing what it's like to be governor of Texas.
(Governing Magazine 7/98)

"I told all four that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator,"
-- CNN.com, December 18, 2000

Answer 18

Absolutely not, I here clicks all the time, just like someone is listening to my conversations. You don't suppose it's because I am a conservative.

Answer 19

**** it hit the wrong ******.... It's a huge NO for me.

Answer 20

It's a troubling situation considering that the general public has limited knowledge on the NSA's spying, and there's little evidence to back up the spying. But with all the tracking that goes on in a phone, it's **** to believe our information is private. It's slightly unsettling, but I guess the best immunity from spying would be from a landline or a phone that isn't a smart phone.

Answer 21

I do not know and I do not care.

Answer 22

But I have no problem if it is the government ...

Answer 23

The question is DO YOU USE THAT TECHNOLOGY? Most devices offer encryption and at least single factor device locking. about 5% of people voluntarily take these steps.

Answer 24

There isn't any security in a cell phone when the NSA can get all your calls, records and locations from the phone company.

Answer 25

LOL no.

Answer 26

**** no! That is why I will never make an online purchase from it. My main email doesn't know my phone exist. And I ****** every text is viewed by someone other than the addresee.

Answer 27

But there has been NO privacy since 1993 when the World Wide Web went online '-}

Answer 28

first of all I have an old flip phone and I don't use it for internet or anything other than text and voice.

Answer 29

There's enough nefariousness out there both in and out of government to make on wary about the security of mobile communications. I treat my cell phone as if it had an extension somewhere out there and do not use it for any purpose that would require a secure connection.

Answer 30

It comes with all sorts of commercial calls.

Answer 31

..... maybe you should be saying to yourself .... ' Self, why did Osama binLaden use his celery phone to make a call and then remove the battery ' ? ? ?

...... yeah, I know, the Celery Phone < s >

Answer 32

No our phones are not secure. an average hacker could break into them why couldn't the US government?

Answer 33

I have none.

Answer 34

By not having one.

Answer 35

It's just as vulnerable as any computer opened to the net, towers, or bluetooth!

Answer 36

NSA & co, need we mention more?

Answer 37

if you are A true American with a raised seal on your birth certificate seems Okay ! if you were our dictator if this little thumb print photo is really you, you'd make a hand some one too ! Have a safe and Happy Holiday