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Bruce Schneier Blazes Through Your Questions - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog: "Wireless is certainly the way of the future. From a security perspective, I don’t see any major additional risks. Sure, there’s a potential for messing everything up, but there was before. Same with power outages. Data transmitted wirelessly should probably be encrypted and authenticated; but it should have been over wires, too. The real risk is complexity. Complexity is the worst enemy of security; as systems become more complex, they get less secure. It’s not the addition of wireless per se; it’s the complexity that wireless — and everything else — adds."

Source: nytimes