Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Website Excellence
Continuing the Daily Cal's proud tradition of website excellence, today's letters to the editor section can be found in the news section online. I suppose it is news, since they actually published five letters, which is unheard of nowadays. More on that later. First, though, there's some important news:
Ever have one of those times when you were afraid some evil guy with nefarious intentions might intercept your instant message and discover that you said "OMG, wuzzup, duuuude!" to your pal? Worry no more! Instant messaging encryption is here!
Graduate student David Molnar knows firsthand how insecure instant messaging can be.
Molnar remembers when a friend would configure his laptop as a wireless network access point in cafes, eavesdropping on the conversations of women who connected to it—material he could use in conversations that led to first dates.
I wonder if any of those chicks are reading this. Clearly, none of those first dates led anywhere, or he probably wouldn't be admitting it. I wonder how The Daily Cal finds these people, though. I guess someone at the office went on one of those dates with Molnar.
The program is primarily intended for those “ordinary people having day-to-day conversations” who want to eliminate the possibility of someone listening in and engaging in malicious activities like stealing passwords, [Berkeley grad student Nikita Borisov] said.
You know, if you're sending your passwords to your friends, I think your security is in poor hands regardless of whether someone is listening in or not.
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