Press Just Discovers That WiFi Data Is Snoopable

Not this again. Yet another analyst firm has come out with a “scary” report about how anyone whose using a WiFi access point is open to having their data “sniffed” by hackers. This is not new. This is not a big story. Yet, the press makes it out to be a big story. The bigger story is how come there aren’t more VPN-style services that offer to encrypt your data as you send it?


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