Friday, July 25, 2003

WiFi security concerns... As many of you are quite well aware, whenever you sit down at a conference or hotel or park or cafe or harbor with "open WiFi", your network activity is possibly being recorded and reviewed by someone else very close to you.  It doesn't take a rocket scientist: it's trivial to do such things with tools such as this one. WiFi sniffing is EASY to do, it is commonly done, and the real question is at what point will someone do real damage by using what they sniff, and when will this be brought to the public's eye by the courts or by congress?  Think about it.  How long will it take before someone starts methodically wardriving in front of major politicians' or executives' homes, looking for open access points and sniffing interesting traffic by sitting in their car across the street each evening?  Don't you think it's already happening?   Read the entire article at [Ray Ozzie's Weblog] 12:27:42 AM