>>Also: why, after millions of checkins over public networks, is this only coming up now? Surely someone would have got burned by this by now?
maybe because people usually check in over the Cellular data network and not wireless networks. I guess it'll be the same if there was a way to sniff out cellular data. Simple oversight or absence of a security mindset in app development.
I think one of the other geo-social-apps mandated checkins over WiFi (Loopt star i believe) .. It'll be interesting to see if they have the same flaw. In that case, it actually might be a bigger threat as the only way to send over information is over the wi-fi network.
maybe because people usually check in over the Cellular data network and not wireless networks. I guess it'll be the same if there was a way to sniff out cellular data. Simple oversight or absence of a security mindset in app development.
I think one of the other geo-social-apps mandated checkins over WiFi (Loopt star i believe) .. It'll be interesting to see if they have the same flaw. In that case, it actually might be a bigger threat as the only way to send over information is over the wi-fi network.