Perspective
Typical to mainstream media to make such a big deal of security issues like those described in this whitepaper but for this technically inclined web site to title their articles " Your health, tax, and search data siphoned" and scare readers by stating that everything on the internet is insecure is irresponsible and lowers the credibility of this writer and the web site itself.
If indeed there is a hacker that is capable of doing 10% of what the white paper suggests to intercept, decode and identify me and my personal data I would personally hire this very smart person as it would be someone who could actually benefit my company.
I would think it would be a lot easier to steal your laptop and just access ALL of your information in one shot, or bribe your company's network administrator which most likely monitors your email and web access anyway and has access to all of your files at any time that she wishes. Or your 11 year old kid that probably can hack into your computer faster than you can log in to it and access all your email and see take a quick look at the hsitory of all the web sites you visited in the last couple of months (now you should really be scared).
Stop selling news by creating fear of the unknown and banking on people's ignorance to gain one extra web hit. Place news items within context and into perspective!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
