| Re: My contact form is not emailed to me [message #173621 is a reply to message #173620] |
Wed, 20 April 2011 20:41   |
P E Schoen
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Registered: January 2011
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"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
news:ion6ej$jhv$1(at)news(dot)albasani(dot)net...
> P E Schoen wrote:
>> The only way I understand would be possible to do this is by listening to
>> the data over the network and identifying the CGI variables with
>> that information. I suppose that is possible if someone was using a
>> public network to access the PHP script. But I doubt that a hacker
>> would want to put in that much effort. The content is being used for
>> public announcements anyway, so the data is not sensitive.
> It is JUST possible if you are using weakly encrypted WiFi.
> In practice, there are far easier ways to hack than trying to
> compromise ISP and backbone routers.
My WiFi is password protected so I'm not worried about that. But the user
may be at any place where internet access can be had, and the CGI variables
would be posted from there to my remote server. I don't think that will be a
problem. It may be more likely that someone would observe the user entering
the information and remember the keystrokes for the password. But I really
don't know all that much about TCP/IP and HTTP and networks in general.
Thanks,
Paul
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