Let me introduce myself here. Long time lurker, recently joined up, first post here.
Sooo, the other day I am at the mall, waiting for my wife outside the Williams-Sonoma store.
I knew I had some time to kill so I fired up my android tablet and did a wifi search. Besides all the free wifi AP's in every store nearby, and the mall's own wifi, I found right below the W-S stores open AP, a 'wmspos' entry. I assume this is the store POS network.
Now, despite it being secured with 802.1x, does anyone else think its a REALLY BAD IDEA to have a store's POS system on the air?
A sniffer and MAC clone could be used to break into an established connection, no?
Time to update Ben Franklin - "Those who would sacrifice security or reliability for convenience, deserve none of the above"
Regards,
John the Mechanical Engineer - Telephone Technology Dilettante since 1986
