On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Nathan McCrina <nfm@sprawl2kxx.net> wrote:
On 03/21/2013 04:05 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:



Question: Clouds are insecure, are they not? Any person with the intent,
and a Linux computer, has the ability to sniff passwords and other
"private" information, doesn't s/he? Isn't this what made us so good
before Microsoft came into the picture. Are Clouds not a "cracker's" -
as opposed to hackers who do not have criminal intent - haven?



Well, the idea of SSL is that you can capture all the packets you want, but you won't be able to read the information in the packets without the key to decrypt it. Or lots of supercomputers and several centuries of free time.


Oh, okay. And the key doesn't get transferred with the data? I'm curious because of safety issues I have with things like wireless banking, internet banking and the Android banking apps.