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.
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Regards,
Dave Ings,
Toronto, Canada

"Ellen K."  wrote
in message 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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