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Originally Posted by jbcohen
Smart Phones do not keep much in the way of data on the device. They keep such things as places that you have called or text and your speed dials and your phone book. Not much information that is interesting to a hacker, what they are interested in is the passwords to your bank account and credit cards, the dollars. Shure they can spend hours breaking into your android phone but what they get out of it, called the payload or the honey pot is not very interesting.
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But I thought according to the article linked, the problem is that people are logging into sites on their smartphones, an interceptable-plain-text token good for sometimes 2 weeks is generated, and therefore they can get all the good stuff.
It's not the data *on* the phone that's necessarily sensitive. Isn't it the fact that with smart phones - phones with apps that log into all sorts of sites, some very sensitive - the traffic can provide a big payoff?