Tech: Evil Twins

Subject: Tech: Evil Twins
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 09:05 AM

Hi, you guys heard of this? You are somewhere doing something over wifi, and somebody right there near you has created an Evil Twin to the site you're heading for, so you connect to THEM instead and they can slurp all your info? Only wifi is susceptible... needs a song right now, I would think!

Subject: RE: Tech: Evil Twins
From: Amos
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 09:21 AM

There's a lot of security concern in WiFi but it manageable. The more common problem is since the transmissions are unshielded, eavesdropping seems easy. I dunno about Evil Twinning!? Where did you hear about that?

A

Subject: RE: Tech: Evil Twins
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 09:33 AM

BBC story about evil twins

Subject: RE: Tech: Evil Twins
From: mack/misophist
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 10:19 AM

An interesting and clever idea. Common sense should be enough protection, though.

Subject: RE: Tech: Evil Twins
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 11:49 AM

Yeah, and watch the other wifiers around you. Anybody snickers while you're doing finances... watch out!
And I heard about it on the BBC, but I see the link above already, thanks, guestKB.

Subject: RE: Tech: Evil Twins
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 26 Jan 05 - 11:47 PM

Not much being reported on this. It seems to be a fairly well known phenom, but not too worrisome here.

All the news flashes seemt to be Brit. Does that mean it's being done there, or just that they only discovered it recently?

No new info really, but one of my newletters just flashed an eWeek Evil Twin Note. Brits again...

John