On: How Not to Do Web Site User Registration

[jmillikin]

Wireless encryption only protects your packets until they reach a router. After that, it's just as (in)secure as a wired connection.

[CalmQuiet → jmillikin]

Especially if (it turns out) the wifi SSID to which you are connecting does not actually belong to the starbucks (or some indie coffee shop offering wifi) but some black hat in an office in the building with the starbucks.