[X4U] security

[James Hurley]

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>Message: 10
>Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 00:53:43 +0000
>From: Stroller <macmonster at myrealbox.com>
>Subject: Re: [X4U] security
>To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."
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>This is exactly the scenario proposed in the BBC article (I think I 
>read it on the BBC website).
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>This vulnerability can mostly be taken advantage of in routers with 
>no wireless encryption enabled. I think that on balance that this is 
>really only a theoretical attack, or one which will only ever be 
>applied to specific targets - there are fewer open APs these days 
>than there were only a year or two ago (although WEP-cracking does 
>increase the number of vulnerable targets), and although many of 
>those that are configured in ignorance are wide-open, an attacker 
>would have to war-drive in order to find them.
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>I think that phishing for bank details would only be viable for a 
>well-organised gang in a metropolitan area (such as London), and 
>probably even then there are easier ways to earn a buck. I suppose 
>that transfers to an IBAN in $COUNTRY may be untraceable, but does
>your bank allow you to dispose of funds so anonymously?
>
>Stroller.


No, not anonymously. Thanks for your reassuring words. I can't 
imagine why a "well-organized gang" would be interested in me.

JIm