What's a FUD?

--sean

FUD=Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. The current weapon of choice in the war against American freedom in the name of the security/corporate state (formerly known as fascism).

Edited by author 07-27-2003 12:59 PM
Someone's writing a letter to the editor about this, right?

This also highlights a problem with the news media today: they sell based on fear. Have you noticed that Newsweek covers another crisis *every issue* ? The media seems to like printing the most inflammatory and frightening things they can . . . or else they are the literary equivalent of popcorn, like most of USA Today.

But people who throw FUD live in FUD.

They also make the classic mistake of assuming that link-layer security matters - that's a common assumption those "security" consultants rely on. No, WiFi isn't secure - neither is my cable modem, your DSL line or the internet in the office and none of that matters: if you aren't using strong, end-to-end encryption all you have is a nice, big sense of false security; if you do use strong cryptography you'll be safe using the public WLAN at a black-hat conference.

The benefits of creating a public WLAN which is trusted no more than any other point of the general Internet are huge: you avoid all of the support headaches of WEP/LEAP/WPA and your users get used to working in a secure fashion which will be the same anywhere they go - which is pretty important since if they're using a laptop at work they'll probably be using it at coffee shops, conferences, hotels, etc.