RE: Hasn't the LA Times and Humphrey Cheung ever heard of the Electronics Communications Privacy Act?

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

My understanding is that with WEP everyone gets the same encryption key, so
the network traffic is still sniffable.  WPA, OTOH, gives everyone on a WiFi
network there own a unique encryption key.  Startbucks/TMobile probably
should be using WPA with a public password.  Ditto for other public WiFi
networks.  I assume that most laptops nowadays support WPA.

SSL/HHTPS can also fix many of the WiFi security problems.  For email, I use
SSL with SMTP and POP3.  Hopefully all Web login pages, order forms, etc.
are using https. 

Richard 

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Jacob Muller [mailto:lists () adam gs] 
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 4:40 PM
To: Matthew Murphy
Cc: Richard M. Smith; funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Hasn't the LA Times and Humphrey Cheung ever heard of
the Electronics Communications Privacy Act?

What if Starbucks put WEP (or WPA) on, but hung a sign with the key?

Does (or should) that still fall under section 1?

-Adam

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