Yes, for the unsuspecting, average consumer.   Not for you.   :)

> From: "Dave Ings" 
> I don't really understand the efficacy of attack as described in the press
> article, and I'm too lazy to go read the original paper.
> If I'm connecting to my own household access point, it's a shared key
> mutually authenticated secure connection and (in theory) essentially
> impossible to hack into. (I don't run my access point in the out of the box
> unsecured mode.)
> If it's a public access point, I connect (sans any passwords) and then
> establish a secure VPN connection back to the office and run a firewall on
> my laptop to ensure other public access point users can't see me.
> So this really sounds like a trap for the unsuspecting, average consumer.
> --
> Regards,
> Dave Ings,
> Toronto, Canada
> "Ellen K." 
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> news:n4a6v0do4nn3a6tcc9850tn559jtngu112{at}4ax.com...
>>http://news.com.com/Evil+twin+could+pose+Wi-Fi+threat/2100-7349-5545355.html?
> part=dtx&tag=ntop&tag=nl.e433
>> 
>> According to the article, the bad guys set up a network close to the
>> real one but with a stronger signal, so users log on to the fake one
>> which then learns their logins, passwords, etc.

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