Wireless Devices Present New Security Challenges
In fact, brokers such as Ameritrade, E-Trade, and Suretrade; banks such as Harris Bank and Chase Manhattan; and bill-payment services such as CheckFree are already offering consumers wireless stock trading, banking, and bill- payment services in the United States, using readily available security technology. For most devices, that means a user name and password for authentication, and some form of scaled-back Secure Sockets Layer encryption technology to prevent eavesdropping.
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