From BestBuy: > Thank you for contacting Best Buy's corporate headquarters with your > concerns. Regarding this issue, Best Buy has deactivated our temporary > wireless cash registers that transmit information via LAN connections. > These registers are not Best Buy's main register terminals and represent a > small percentage of the transactions processed within our stores. Please be > assured that customer privacy is of the utmost importance to Best Buy and we > will further investigate this matter. > > We do appreciate your taking the time to share your concerns with us. > > Respectfully, > Alex Reynolds > Contact Center Escalations > Best Buy Enterprise Customer Care I have no way of assessing their explanation for the limited nature of their exposure. // Sarah "Duffy, Shawn" wrote: > > This was exactly the point I was trying to make in my first email. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Cunningham > To: H C; vuln-devat_private > Sent: 5/1/02 6:05 PM > Subject: RE: Wlan @ bestbuy is cleartext? > > This information is already going public. > I have gotten several emails from newspapers > and online websites (big names to). > > The faster it is exposed the less damage people > with not the best of intentions can do. Realisticaly > the underground community probably makes up > half or more of this mailing list. > > I personally am going to scan my local stores tonight > to see if I can detect this problem. I cant trust > a company with my credit card info who cant even > setup a 802.11b lan correctly. I will let everyone > know what I find. > > Thanks, > Mike > > > > When you consider that it's names like Wal-Mart and > > Best > > > Buy, both large retailers, the benefits of making > > > this information known > > > has been a equally weighed against what said > > > retailer would do to us in > > > the courts if we made the information public. > > > > Thus far on the thread, I'm not aware of anyone asking > > you to make the information public. > > > > However, let me ask you this...since you've now been > > doing this for 2 yrs, what steps have you taken to > > address the situation? > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness > > http://health.yahoo.com
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