Wireless LANs: Security Risk?
But as wireless computing gets more popular, your data is not on the "wire" all the time anymore. When the data leaves the access point and travels to the NIC (and vice versa), it may be less secure than data that goes directly over the wire. This is a big security hole. Anyone with sensitive radio listening devices could capture data -- undetected -- by sitting in your parking lot, in a building next door, or even in the next room.
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