I agree with Cythentiq on this - acceptable risk is a very personal issue. For me, acceptable risk means that I won't risk doing my banking transactions on someone else's machine or on someone else's internet connection. I know perfectly well that my home connection is just as vulnerable to someone upstream deciding to watch my traffic, but I'm trying to limit the risk I have to deal with. If it's something hugely sensitive, I'll just go to a physical location (and then deal with the risk of a possibly malicious bank teller, etc.)
For someone else, they may be willing to accept more risk and so they'd use internet cafe wireless networks and do all of their finances from that point.
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In another forum, there was a guy posting live as he hacked people's e-mail, Myspace, and Facebook accounts by doing something resembling the poisoning the arp table and man-in-the-middle. I don't understand any of that, so I thought I'd ask if new hacking techniques or programs pose a "great danger" in regard to secure banking websites.
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And to be perfectly honest, poisoning arp-tables for wired networks and SSL MitM attacks aren't really new hacking techniques - they've been around for years and get brushed up from time to time as technology changes. The most secure internet connection is none at all
