Wow, lame reporting by Wired. The author obviously wanted to run a negative piece, so he cherrypicked his sources.
Both computer security experts he talked to--seriously, experts, Matt Blaze and Jonathan Mayer do great work--explained that this isn't necessarily insecure. But most of the story belongs to this whining Soghoian guy from ACLU, who doesn't appear to be a computer scientist, software engineer, or even IT admin.
Both computer security experts he talked to--seriously, experts, Matt Blaze and Jonathan Mayer do great work--explained that this isn't necessarily insecure. But most of the story belongs to this whining Soghoian guy from ACLU, who doesn't appear to be a computer scientist, software engineer, or even IT admin.