"The weakest link" (WLAN)

Dan Snyder dan at macdatatech.com
Thu Dec 16 13:53:55 PST 2004


 
>> One of the new stories this week in regards to arresting and
>> sentencing those who break in to computers had a couple of people
>> who were convicted of ward-driving and penetrating systems
>> with unsecured wireless communications.
>  
> My apartment complex has a linksys netgear and dlink network all on
> channel 6 that I can see from my apartment all with no encryption at all

Yes, I agree this is a big problem too.  I can see 4 different wireless
networks from my apartment.  I haven't tried to connect to them, but yes I'm
sure one or more have no encryption or the default passwords.

- Dan Snyder



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