Jefferson's Wheel

Group alumna Adrienne Felt is in the news for reporting that Gogo in-flight wifi service is generating fake SSL certificates.

From Gogo Inflight Wi-Fi Undermines Encryption, Slate FutureTense, 5 Jan 2015:

Wi-Fi on planes is unreliable and expensive. Even worse: Service from Gogo—one of the primary providers of in-flight Internet—has a lot of strange insecurities. Google engineer Adrienne Porter Felt realized during a flight on Friday that, for Google services and possibly others, Gogo was undermining encryption meant to keep pages secure.

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 15th, 2015 at 1:49 pm and is filed under Alumni, Security, Web Security.