Originally Posted by TierFlyer
Of course, it's a lot cheaper to intercept your cell phone or tap the PBX than it is to snoop your wifi and keylog you. When was the last time you gave someone one your credit card number?
Its probably b/c I dont know how to hack a traditional PBX or a cell...
But I find free software and a $200 laptop with wifi to be about as easy as it gets to intercept wifi and to MITM attacks...
I called a hotel in Bordeaux, using VoIP, from a hotel, two days ago and have to give a CC number. Granted, I have to trust the entire chain of that telephone call...but I know it wasn't listened to from inside the hotel!
But again, in the end, its what you are comfortable with- I just think people should fully understand the situation and make up their own minds. How hard is it to turn on WPA2 and use a 64 bit key? How hard is it to find an SSL website for your bank or a VPN solution? For my mother thats pretty close to impossible. For my father, it just took me saying "dad, use VPN when your not in the office"... for others they might say "its not worth it for me"...just as long as they make that an informed choice.
In regards to being unlucky or rich...I tend to be more of one that the other...wanna guess (hint: I'm not rich). But I do carry the medical records of about 5,000,000 people on my laptop...and I'm not going to be THAT guy on CNN (knock on wood)...