Help Net Security: Burner Phones Are an Eavesdropping Risk for International Travelers

Published by Michael Campbell on January 7, 2020

In recent years, burner phones have become an obligatory part of the international business traveler’s toolkit. But though these devices are designed to minimize the amount of stored data available for capture by malicious actors in a foreign country, burner phones actually give attackers an opening to another, potentially more valuable, form of data: conversations that occur during key meetings in the vicinity of the device.