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20 Jan 05 - 09:05 AM (#1383130) Subject: Tech: Evil Twins From: GUEST,Mrr 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! |
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20 Jan 05 - 09:21 AM (#1383135) Subject: RE: Tech: Evil Twins From: Amos 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 |
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20 Jan 05 - 09:33 AM (#1383143) Subject: RE: Tech: Evil Twins From: GUEST,KB BBC story about evil twins |
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20 Jan 05 - 10:19 AM (#1383181) Subject: RE: Tech: Evil Twins From: mack/misophist An interesting and clever idea. Common sense should be enough protection, though. |
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20 Jan 05 - 11:49 AM (#1383260) Subject: RE: Tech: Evil Twins From: GUEST,Mrr 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. |
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26 Jan 05 - 11:47 PM (#1389936) Subject: RE: Tech: Evil Twins From: JohnInKansas 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 |