Dennis Blaine has thought a lot about wireless security lately, and so far he is distinctly unimpressed. The firm designs and manufactures security devices that utilize sophisticated scrambling and encryption techniques to protect sensitive voice and data transmissions. Not very, as Blaine admits. Consumers have voiced concerned about security in the m-commerce world. Sometimes, as we all, know, perception becomes reality.
People only think about security when something negative happens.
You read where a congressman gets his cell phone tapped or someone eavesdrops on a conversation using normal scanner technology from Radio Shack, and when people hear about those things they get concerned about security. We think that in the wireless community most people have not yet considered the security issues involved in broadcasting over the air, and yet almost anyone today can intercept a conversation going over the air. The same thing applies to commerce. I use the voice analogy because people pick it up very readily, but the same is true for transactions. When you are trying to do commerce over the airwaves right now there is not a lot of security.