On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Nathan McCrina <n...@sprawl2kxx.net> wrote:
> On 03/21/2013 04:05 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: > >> >> >> >> Question: Clouds are insecure, are they not? Any person with the intent, >> and a Linux computer, has the ability to sniff passwords and other >> "private" information, doesn't s/he? Isn't this what made us so good >> before Microsoft came into the picture. Are Clouds not a "cracker's" - >> as opposed to hackers who do not have criminal intent - haven? >> >> >> > Well, the idea of SSL is that you can capture all the packets you want, > but you won't be able to read the information in the packets without the > key to decrypt it. Or lots of supercomputers and several centuries of free > time. > > Oh, okay. And the key doesn't get transferred with the data? I'm curious because of safety issues I have with things like wireless banking, internet banking and the Android banking apps.
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