[luau] Follow up on the BB story

[R. Scott Belford]

I am not Best Buy, and even I know how stupid it is to pass any ccard 
info into un-encrypted space.  Even encrypted is arguably foolish.  I 
wonder how many drive by hackers knew this for how long?  Thanks for the 
info.


On Thursday, May 2, 2002, at 05:45 PM, whenever wrote:

>
> http://www.silicon.com/public/door?6004REQEVENT=&REQINT1=53089&REQSTR1=silicon.
> com
>
> Major US retail chain Best Buy has been forced to close down its 
> wireless
> cash registers after security experts revealed it had been making 
> credit card
> information available to anyone in the vicinity with the equipment to 
> detect
> wireless networks.
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