WEP Security Alert

[SirMoby]

Originally Posted by oast

The 'average' (non-paranoid) man should have nothing to worry about.

Do you mean non-paranoid or the "Uneducated Man"?

Do you do any online banking? Put your credit card on the Internet? Use PayPal or ePassport?

Anyone can drive into a neighborhood and park for a bit while sniffing traffic. The software just sits and scans for things that look like authentication tokens and account numbers.

While everyone knows that this same information can be gotten by breaking into a home, going through trash and other physical means, this is the first time in history that so much personal information is in the air. People that would never consider committing crimes that require physical contact with people, paper or other things do this all the time.

Recently a web site was shut down where some kids posted the personal information of 10,000s government employees including SSN, cc information and various personal login information.

I used to plug my sniffer in outside of my firewall and on my cable. I could sniff everything going on in the neighborhood. I've heard so many people say "I have a firewall" but what does that do once your information is in the air?

Just because you're uneducated about a subject does that mean that those of us that are educated are paranoid?