Vulnerability Development: RE: Fwd: Re: Wlan @ bestbuy is cleartext?

["Vachon, Scott" <Scott.Vachon () Paymentech com>]

> Since this is in fact vuln-dev, does anyone have any experince with these
> devices?  Instantly everyone blames the retail store, but how do we know
> thoes silly little barcode scanners and such even support anything other
> than a wide open network?  Think back to all the stupid things you have
> heard of vendors doing in the past...
A company called Symbol seems to be the leader with Wireless barcode
scanners. While they claim to use Frequency hopping and/or DSSS, they do not
claim explicitly to use encryption with them. Anyone use these ? They also
provide wireless POS systems . Again, I did not see specific references on
the site to encryption for the wireless POS. The link is: www.symbol.com if
anyone has more available time to pursue it...

~S~

Disclaimer: My own 2 cents.