Submitted by John Locke on

This article talks about a group that has released a way of hacking a cable modem that allows the hacker to listen to pretty much all of the traffic in the neighborhood.

Techniques like this prove you can never be sure who's listening to your network traffic. Any sensitive web browsing or email you use should be encrypted, to prevent snooping like this.

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