Originally Posted by L Y R

Not sure what all the fuss is about, if you are connecting to an SSL web page which most password and sensetive pages are, your data is encrypted. while traveling over wireless or wired it makes no difference, Just like a sniffer can pick up information traveling in the air, so can a man in the middle pick up information over the core internet. Wireless aspect makes it all the more public and accessable, thought not more breakable.

Advice is; Always update your antiviruses, always update your OS patches. enable your soft firewall, and ONLY give senstive data over CERTIFIED and secure SSL pages. As with Filesharing, I would not advise that in a coffeshop, unless its not sensitive data

Am I missing something, Because I hear all the hype, yet I have not yet seen a case where passwords have been decrypted over the air while traveling to an SSL destination. But believe me the day SSL is cracked, we either have to move like lightning to 256k encryption, or Game over for Internet as we see it.