Wireless and Mobile Device Security, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER SUMMARY

Wi-Fi may have untethered computers from network ports, but Mobile IP and smart devices extended the range of connectivity to seemingly every part of the planet. Wi-Fi made the Internet portable from place to place, but mobility connected everyone everywhere in between. For better or worse, people are now connected to the rest of the planet in real time.

It’s hard to overestimate the impact of this change. Few technologies have profoundly changed the way humans live and interact with each other to such a degree. More incredible is that the mobile Internet took what was thought to be one of the biggest communication technology breakthroughs of humankind—the Internet—and somehow made it even more impactful. However, from a security ...