<story><title>Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world</title><url>http://blogs.computerworld.com/android/22806/google-knows-nearly-every-wi-fi-password-world</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tytso</author><text>The author is worried about WiFi passwords?   If you trust that your WiFi is secure in general, you&amp;#x27;re in trouble.   WPS is horribly insecure, for example, and that&amp;#x27;s what most home users use.   Most user-chosen passwords are incredibly easy to guess for another.  The better thing to do is to assume that your network traffic is always under surveillance (since the NSA is tapping Tier1 network providers), and to encrypt everything, or use network protocols which encrypt everything.&lt;p&gt;The only thing WiFi passwords are good for is to prevent your neighbors from using your network and using up all of your bandwidth (which would slow down your network access) and preventing drive-by spammers&amp;#x2F;hackers from doing things which you might then get blamed for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ebbv</author><text>Yeah and those locks on your doors are a joke! Why are you pretending your home has an expectation of privacy? So dumb! Of COURSE anybody can just come into your house any time they want.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world</title><url>http://blogs.computerworld.com/android/22806/google-knows-nearly-every-wi-fi-password-world</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tytso</author><text>The author is worried about WiFi passwords?   If you trust that your WiFi is secure in general, you&amp;#x27;re in trouble.   WPS is horribly insecure, for example, and that&amp;#x27;s what most home users use.   Most user-chosen passwords are incredibly easy to guess for another.  The better thing to do is to assume that your network traffic is always under surveillance (since the NSA is tapping Tier1 network providers), and to encrypt everything, or use network protocols which encrypt everything.&lt;p&gt;The only thing WiFi passwords are good for is to prevent your neighbors from using your network and using up all of your bandwidth (which would slow down your network access) and preventing drive-by spammers&amp;#x2F;hackers from doing things which you might then get blamed for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>srollyson</author><text>Honestly, I use WEP encryption because I know that WiFi security is a house of cards in general. As you&amp;#x27;ve said, it&amp;#x27;s enough to prevent the typical user from leeching bandwidth.&lt;p&gt;The nice thing about using WEP is that if someone &lt;i&gt;does&lt;/i&gt; end up using my network for something nefarious and I end up holding the bag for it, I (or an expert witness) can point out that WEP is known to be vulnerable in court giving me an out.</text></comment>