At the Care's meeting in Flensburg, the youngest speaker (15 years old) did a live demo on how to snoop on email communications in wireless networks. Honestly, I got a bit scared as the email messages being captured went flashing on the screen.
A bit of paranoia can be healthy (for data privacy). elpidio On Wednesday 03 March 2004 02:09, J. Antas wrote: > That is also a subject to keep an eye in the hospital environment. > It is so easy (and fast too) to insert a keychain WiFi device in a USB > port. These devices are now widely available at prices as low as €40. > And, as some of us know well, most of the time USB ports get no > attention to security issues whatsoever. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Care2002-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers

