Cell phone tethered or hacked?
Moderator: If this question is inappropriate for this forum please delete the post and accept my apology, but I've been unable to get a definitive answer elsewhere. I have a friend who claims his...
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^^^^This is accurate. "Tether" is not really the correct term.
Tethering is using your phone like a modem, with your computer connected to it with a cable. Not very common. More common is the practice of using a phone to make a wi-fi hotspot. On my phone you must have physical possession of the phone to do it. The hotspot is secure like any other secure wi-fi---you have to choose which devices are allowed to use it.
If in some unlikely way the phone had been used as a hotspot, by someone else, it would become obvious because the data usage would go out through the roof.
And the problems may have nothing to do with the phone.
Tethering is using your phone like a modem, with your computer connected to it with a cable. Not very common. More common is the practice of using a phone to make a wi-fi hotspot. On my phone you must have physical possession of the phone to do it. The hotspot is secure like any other secure wi-fi---you have to choose which devices are allowed to use it.
If in some unlikely way the phone had been used as a hotspot, by someone else, it would become obvious because the data usage would go out through the roof.
And the problems may have nothing to do with the phone.
