On Ter, 04 Jan 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote:
The wireless encrypts the traffic only between my laptop and my AP.
Beyond my AP the wireless encryptions does not bring any additional
security.
That's true, but that's exactly the point: if the wireless network is
not encrypted it is trivial to capture the plain-text traffic between
user's computers and the AP: you just need another computer with a
wireless adapter nearby.
Sniffing traffic past the AP is harder: generally the connection is
cabled, so you need physical access to the network, some technique to
route packages to your machine (not difficult to do, but also means
your action might be detected), etc.
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It looks like blind screaming hedonism won out.
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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