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- Recently had a credit card sent to my by Citi CashReturns Card. Never order it so I called to inquire. Seems I had a Sears CC some years back and they some how got the rights to send me a card. What is MOST SCARY is that everyone I talked to from the call center employee, a supervisor and the executive assistant to the President can SEE and has ACCESS to my entire SS#. Citi does not encrypt the number. I asked to have the CC cancelled and requested my information be deleted from their files. The executive assistant said the Patriot Act does not allow them to do so. I guess anyone and everyone at Citi get my identity.
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- This is the dumbest case of fear mongering I''ve seen. Blaming WEP for insecure systems is like blaming locksmith for someone breaking in your house using copies of your keys when you don''t have an alarm system. The issue is overall security, which needs to be implemented throughout the organization, not simple encryption protocols on the store''s wireless systems. Majority of all compromises originate from inside of the organizations anyway, so external wireless security is irrelevant.Next time please invite a computer security expert, maybe someone who has a CISSP certification, on your show so they can explain you basic things like that. College kids who know how to use Kismet/KisMAC and how to crack WEP are not experts.
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- This is the dumbest case of fear mongering I''ve seen. Blaming WEP for insecure systems is like blaming locksmith for someone breaking in your house using copies of your keys when you don''t have an alarm system. The issue is overall security, which needs to be implemented throughout the organization, not simple encryption protocols on the store''s wireless systems. Majority of all compromises originate from inside of the organizations anyway, so external wireless security is irrelevant.Next time please invite a computer security expert, maybe someone who has a CISSP certification, on your show so they can explain you basic things like that. College kids who know how to use Kismet/KisMAC and how to crack WEP are not experts.
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- I am not sure why they are telling people to upgrade to WPA instead of WEP. WPA is just as vulnerable to cracking as WEP. They are about 1-2 years behind on this story. WPA has already been cracked. They need to be more up too date on this issue. The story has told nothing new.
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- I really did enjoy the story. It was very informative. I have a concern about stores printing your complete credit card number on your receipt that is signed and kept in the store. Is this still acceptable and if not, who do I report these stores to? I shop at these stores often and I wouldn''t like for my information to be "leaked" out to hackers.
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