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Originally Posted by SirMoby

Just because you're uneducated about a subject

I am not uneducated.. you don't know me, so don't assume, please. Thank you.

Originally Posted by SirMoby

does that mean that those of us that are educated are paranoid?

The wrong education can lead to paranoia. In a lot of cases it is the cause.

The FBI demonstration (conducted over a year ago, BTW) used exagerted traffic loads to break the code in 3 minutes. Traffic FAR beyond the norm of a household or even small business. The amount of "normal" data that needs to be 'sniffed' to get access to a network would take hours (maybe days on a slower-moving, average, home network).

Would you sit outside a house for hours (or days) in the hope that the network was hackable? Then... assuming it was... that they had some information worth stealing? I don't think so.