Re: Wlan @ bestbuy is cleartext?

["Jonathan E. Katz" <jonathan () ucla edu>]

> I worked at a Best Buy, and while this is a concern, you shouldn't be afraid to tell them about this.
>
> Here's my suggestion. Take your laptop, go to the security counter up front. Ask to speak to the Security lead, or 
> the on-duty manager or sales manager. Wait there, then briefly explain what you found and how you came about it.
> Explain that you were doing it only as a test for your new card, and they shouldn't have any problem with that bit.
> Then explain that this information is being sent outside of the building, and that you, as a customer find this very 
> worrying and you feel that will discourage you from shopping at a Best Buy in the future. This will really perk them 
> up and they prolly will ask for the data on a disk, and then have you erase it from your laptop.
>
> They were really nice people and I can see something like this being a concern for them.

Not to go off topic here, but, the demo to the store just strikes me as a
bad way to go about this...  Forget the fact that Best Buy likes to arrest
people now for odd things...
(
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=31635&threshold=4&commentsort=0&tid=98&mode=thread&cid=3403140
http://hypothermia.gamershardware.com/articles/bb_arrest.html
)


But I can only assume that the wrong guy would call the cops...
And most of the good people will:
  a) not care
  b) arent in a position to do something if they did...

Want to do this?  Leak an anonymous tip the Channel 9 news, demo it for
them anonymously.... Let mass media fix the problem for you....