{"id":753,"date":"2010-02-24T19:32:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T03:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/?p=753"},"modified":"2010-02-24T19:39:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T03:39:44","slug":"how-secure-are-iphone-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/24\/how-secure-are-iphone-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"How Secure Are iPhone Apps?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I looked at the Linkedin, Flickr, and Facebook iPhone apps to see how secure they were.<\/p>\n<p>When you log-in your password is safe and protected with SSL:<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #fff; background: #000; padding: 5px;\">\nNo.     Time        Source                Destination           Protocol Info<br \/>\n      1 0.000000    192.168.0.102         8.17.171.32           TCP      49891 > https [SYN] Seq=0 Win=65535 Len=0 MSS=1460 WS=2 TSV=840468191 TSER=0<\/p>\n<p>Frame 1 (78 bytes on wire, 78 bytes captured)<br \/>\nEthernet II, Src: AppleCom_94:9e:c2 (00:16:cb:94:9e:c2), Dst: D-Link_4a:41:9c (00:0f:3d:4a:41:9c)<br \/>\nInternet Protocol, Src: 192.168.0.102 (192.168.0.102), Dst: 8.17.171.32 (8.17.171.32)<br \/>\nTransmission Control Protocol, Src Port: 49891 (49891), Dst Port: https (443), Seq: 0, Len: 0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nHowever, let&#8217;s say that you view your list of contacts on the LinkedIn iPhone app:<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img src='\/img\/goturemail.jpg' alt='Exposed Email Redacted' width='480' \/><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re basically giving away your contacts to the hacker at the cafe who is taking advantage of the fact that you&#8217;re using WiFi.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the scoop on the iPhone Apps.<\/p>\n<h3>Your data is not secure with these apps:<\/h3>\n<p>Flickr: Password Secure, Data not<br \/>\nFacebook: Password Secure,  Data not<br \/>\nLinkedin: Password Secure, Data not<\/p>\n<h3>All your data is secure with these apps:<\/h3>\n<p>Gmail: Password Secure, Data Secure<br \/>\nHushmail: Password Secure, Data Secure<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hushmail.com\/\">Hushmail<\/a> even has an option to turn off security, but why would you? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I looked at the Linkedin, Flickr, and Facebook iPhone apps to see how secure they were. When you log-in your password is safe and protected with SSL: No. Time Source Destination Protocol Info 1 0.000000 192.168.0.102 8.17.171.32 TCP 49891 > https [SYN] Seq=0 Win=65535 Len=0 MSS=1460 WS=2 TSV=840468191 TSER=0 Frame 1 (78 bytes on wire, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,103,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","category-social-media","category-techbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}