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"School children and grandparents alike are now worrying about whether their passwords are being passed in the clear now. Imagine that." Even if they are "worr
by larrys 13y ago
"School children and grandparents alike are now worrying about whether their passwords are being passed in the clear now. Imagine that."
Even if they are "worrying" (and I really doubt that they are actually) they would only be worrying the same way they do about flying right after a major plane accident. That anxiety tends to go away very quickly.
- lstamour 13y agoYep. With every password breach the word gets out that you should have unique, strong passwords for each site. And yet with every breach we learn of more shared, common passwords. Not to mention how little attention most pay to entering a password on a site without SSL. Credit cards they'll worry about but passwords, less so. And imagine explaining session cookie hijacking as we tried to when Firesheep launched? ;-) Once the big players launched with SSL, problem "solved". That said, most do now secure their WiFi, so the public can learn, and I think has learned from healthcare.gov.
- larrys 13y ago"That said, most do now secure their WiFi" Then there is the linksys wifi camera which you can access over the net but doesn't have https. So in order to get to it securely I have to ssh in to a machine on the network with a tunnel and connect by proxy. A real pain.
- lstamour 13y agoOr the devices you don't check. In my case, I've yet to intercept traffic from a Dropcam to see if it's SSL'd correctly everywhere. Let's not start on the alert screenshots it emails me....