Comment on DEF CON: The event that scares hackersparentComments−0x015yOn the other hand, they might just PCAP all of _your_ traffic, and wait until some flaw like DSA-1571-1 surfaces, and go back a week, a month, a year later to recover the plaintext of all your encrypted sessions.−munin15ythis is a risk you already run anytime you connect to any network so i'm not really sure why it makes defcon "more" dangerous.−duskwuff15yWhen you connect to any other wireless network, there a chance that your traffic is being sniffed.When you connect to the wireless at DefCon, the only real question is how many people are sniffing it, and for what. :)
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On the other hand, they might just PCAP all of _your_ traffic, and wait until some flaw like DSA-1571-1 surfaces, and go back a week, a month, a year later to recover the plaintext of all your encrypted sessions.
this is a risk you already run anytime you connect to any network so i'm not really sure why it makes defcon "more" dangerous.
When you connect to any other wireless network, there a chance that your traffic is being sniffed.
When you connect to the wireless at DefCon, the only real question is how many people are sniffing it, and for what. :)