From: "Bob" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 13:53:49 -0800
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]David Pogue wakes up about WIFI encryption
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** Reply to message from "Stanley Sidlov" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:31:04 -0500 (EST)

> http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/technology/circuits.html
> 
> "Frankly, I consider the details of my life so boring to other people that I
> really couldn't care less. I've got nothing to hide, so why not accept it?
> 
> That attitude spilled over to a "From the Desk of David Pogue" e-column I wrote
> in 2004, in which I attempted to throw water on scare-tactic computer-magazine
> articles that said, in effect: "Ooooh! If you use your Wi-Fi laptop at public
> Internet hot spots, the bad guys will see everything you're doing and rifle
> through your files!"
> 
> I'm back again today to throw that water right back into my own face. On this topic, my eyes have been opened."

Since I do not run windows and do not have any shares defined on my system I do
not worry about someone getting into my system.  When sending anything in plain
text I fully expect that someone will see what I send a receive, wireless or
wired, it makes no difference except wireless is much more open to snooping.

My big complaint is that passwords are sent in plain text for most email and
none of the providers of email servers are doing anything to fix that.  Email
clients will not be changed until there is some sort of a standard supported at
the server end.

-- 
Robert Blair