Comments on: WiFi’s Evil Twin http://www.forevergeek.com/2005/01/wifis_evil_twin/ Nerds are for Dorks Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:14:48 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Brendan Avery http://www.forevergeek.com/2005/01/wifis_evil_twin/comment-page-1/#comment-7746 Brendan Avery Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:49:45 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=1097#comment-7746 Essentially this will probably never be used for anything more than that which anyone running a packet-sniffer in the area can't accomplish anyways. Nothing too new here. Don't worry about it. Sans-SSL or encryption the Internet/Wireless is essentially always insecure. Still, nothing quite as fun as going to a free wifi hotspot with a packetsniffer eavesdropping on AIM conversations or harvesting the local university students' account passwords. Not that I would ever do something like that. Essentially this will probably never be used for anything more than that which anyone running a packet-sniffer in the area can’t accomplish anyways. Nothing too new here. Don’t worry about it. Sans-SSL or encryption the Internet/Wireless is essentially always insecure.

Still, nothing quite as fun as going to a free wifi hotspot with a packetsniffer eavesdropping on AIM conversations or harvesting the local university students’ account passwords. Not that I would ever do something like that.

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