The Guardian view on internet security: complexity is vulnerable | Editorial

A huge weakness in wifi security erodes online privacy. But the real challenge is designing with human shortcomings in mindThis week’s security scandal is the discovery that every household with wifi in this country has a network that isn’t really private. For 13 years a weakness has lurked in the supposedly secure way in which wireless networks carry our information. Although the WPA2 security scheme was supposed to be mathematically proven to be uncrackable, it turns out that the m