[ale] About Wireless Connectivity

[Dan Newcombe]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Hogg, Russell E wrote:
> In two or 3 days I mapped perhaps 4 or 500 APs.  Roughly 30 percent of them
> had WEP enabled.  On the other end maybe another 30% still showed the
> default SSIDs.

My neighboor came out all proud showing me her notebook with it's wireless
connection.  She got REAL scared when I started asking her if it was
secure.  She had a windows machine behind it with a share with no password
because "it's just for the machines in her house".  It's since been
secured.

When I drove to MA this xmas, I found all sorts of AP's.  Some with quite
interesting names like "Travis Airport" or "Allentown Bridge".

When I went to FL last summer, I took my daughter for a drive to get her
to fall asleep and once she did, pulled in a parking lot and checked my
e-mail courtesy of an open AP.

Mine is not!
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