http://www.latimes.com/business/
la-fi-consumer22apr22,0,5309582.
story?coll=la-home-headlines
Public Wi-Fi may turn your life into an open notebook
Don’t assume wireless hot spots are secure.
‘Sniffers’ may be hacking nearby.
By David Colker, Times Staff Writer
April 22, 2007
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Cheung was using a “sniffer” program that intercepted online signals as they flew back and forth from the laptops to a wireless modem hidden somewhere amid the coffee paraphernalia.
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That’s why if I have to use a public wifi, I use GOTOMYPC to “go home” and surf from there. It encrypts everything between my home desk top and my notebook. If I’m on an internet cafe’s machine, I assume there is a key logger in place.
Reinke Faces Life 