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Upshot of the WPA2 brouhahaWe could argue about security all day long. Every move we make -- from breathing to crossing the street to... 1
When I was growing up, our front door and back door were never locked. Was that a vulnerability? Did it create an attack vector? Were we at risk?
If your first reaction to the above questions is "hellyes!", would you change your mind if you knew we lived on a dead end street in a small, secluded neighborhood, about 2 miles out, in dense woods, from the center of a very small town? That the last known neighborhood crime was when a group of unidentified kids (ahem) broke some windows in a house that was under construction? That we had dogs...fairly large and fairly loud dogs? My father kept a .45 automatic handy and knew how to use it? (He didn't, but you get my drift here.)
Not being a security professional, my general impression is that, as with so many network/information security issues, the
real answer is, "it depends." And so it is with AirTight's revelation this week of what it calls a "vulnerability" in the
WPA2, the Wi-Fi Alliance industry security specification based on the IEEE 802.11i standard.
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