Stating repeatedly, “I am an expert” makes you sound arrogant and obnoxious. Using Wireshark to identify plaintext network traffic is basic skill level.
It pisses me off that WPA3 is not more widely used by default in public WiFi. It's significantly more secure than WPA2 and would be a major barrier that anyone with a sniffer would have to get past before trying to attack SSL. I think it's not used just out of laziness. You'd need a pretty old device not to have support.
I don't think it's "laziness" so much as "invisible". Nobody cares. Until MacBooks, iPhones, and Windows laptops start noting WPA2 as "medium" security instead of "strong" security, nobody will notice that it needs to change.
It's supposed to be on by default, "transition mode", but apparently it's not. I'm at a local bar with a Comcast supplied router and a modern MacBook, two things which should default to WPA3, and yet, I'm connected via "WPA2 Personal".
This article isn't like some others that have made me feel that way, but I'm gonna do it from now on...whenever I do it from a computer. I hate typing on my phone. My fingers are too fat.
Stating repeatedly, “I am an expert” makes you sound arrogant and obnoxious. Using Wireshark to identify plaintext network traffic is basic skill level.
Using Wireshark to identify plaintext traffic is indeed basic skill level.
And yet, nobody involved in the debate did it. They opined about what did and did not go across the wire in plaintext without ever showing it.
I am not trying to convince anybody I'm an expert, I'm trying to inform them.
It pisses me off that WPA3 is not more widely used by default in public WiFi. It's significantly more secure than WPA2 and would be a major barrier that anyone with a sniffer would have to get past before trying to attack SSL. I think it's not used just out of laziness. You'd need a pretty old device not to have support.
WPA3 is "only" about 5 to 7 years old. :-)
I don't think it's "laziness" so much as "invisible". Nobody cares. Until MacBooks, iPhones, and Windows laptops start noting WPA2 as "medium" security instead of "strong" security, nobody will notice that it needs to change.
It's supposed to be on by default, "transition mode", but apparently it's not. I'm at a local bar with a Comcast supplied router and a modern MacBook, two things which should default to WPA3, and yet, I'm connected via "WPA2 Personal".
Does any of this apply to a 5g network or only WiFi?
Your 5G network may use IPv6, which more precisely identifies your device, as does your IMEI.
Rob... for the love of any and everything holy...
Would you just....run for congress, already???
This article isn't like some others that have made me feel that way, but I'm gonna do it from now on...whenever I do it from a computer. I hate typing on my phone. My fingers are too fat.
I'mma do it until you cave :)