I am not Best Buy, and even I know how stupid it is to pass any ccard info into un-encrypted space. Even encrypted is arguably foolish. I wonder how many drive by hackers knew this for how long? Thanks for the info.

On Thursday, May 2, 2002, at 05:45 PM, whenever wrote:


http://www.silicon.com/public/door?6004REQEVENT=&REQINT1=53089&REQSTR1=silicon.
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Major US retail chain Best Buy has been forced to close down its wireless cash registers after security experts revealed it had been making credit card information available to anyone in the vicinity with the equipment to detect
wireless networks.
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