[zephyr]

I don't want to be all Chicken Little and the Sky is Falling, but this announcement was interesting and rather ominous: "All data that move across Wi-Fi networks could be susceptible to hacking, researcher says." (title of article in the L.A.Times) If it's not one thing it's another. I saw a recent blog post mentioning this a couple of days ago. Then tonight I found this article in the L.A.Times. Quote: Home and corporate Wi-Fi networks — and all the data, photos and messages transmitted across them — could be vulnerable to hackers, according to a computer security researcher in Belgium. The vulnerability is in WPA2, the main protocol that protects Wi-Fi networks. Hackers can use a technique known as key reinstallation attacks, or Krack for short, to intercept information sent over networks that users thought were encrypted, the researcher says. “Nobody has ever found this vulnerability,” said Matthew Green, assistant professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University. “It’s pretty serious.” There is a section of the article talking about patches that Microsoft and Apple have released. ~z

[flatsqwerl]

Now I remember why I root for the Luddites... :>(((((

[Chico]

Not going to worry about it as I don't transmit personal secret data via wi-fi. Just as I don't place phone orders using a portable phone.

[Malachai Constant]

The way the hack will work is not on your own wi-fi as you have to be within range. It will be used against business which have wi-if rather than hard wired networks from an adjacent building. What could be a problem is if a neighbor cracks your network of illegal purposes e.g. downloading child pOrn, hacking, terrorism, etc.

[MtnGoat]

Nobody will ever crack my wifi. my seekrit settings are password and admin

[Josh Journey]

A decent video on this subject:

[Malachai Constant]

If anyone actually starts exploiting it I still have ethernet in the walls.