some may recall a thread i started a little while back discussing the ethics of sniffing around an open corporate access point in the hopes of identifying the company in order to alert them of their error.
just something i thought was interesting in that pathetic sort of way... the company for whom i was consulting on the day that i first discovered the horridly secured network... i'm back there today.
and the totally open access point behind which sit various WinNT boxes with default IIS running... yeah, that's all still the same. i presented that office (anonymously) with a detailed description of their problem and an explanation of how vulnerably their balls were flapping in the wind. how in the it hasn't been addressed in the least is beyond me.
still, i thought that mentioning it might be a wake-up reminder to those of us who get mired in the technical details of Wi-Fi and other types of security. the whole state of the industry and of how wireless is handled will depend both on our community's ability to pioneer better security and the public's ability to implement it. as a society, we're still badly lacking on the latter front. not that this is a huge surprise to anyone, but it's healthy to acknowledge once in a while.
just something i thought was interesting in that pathetic sort of way... the company for whom i was consulting on the day that i first discovered the horridly secured network... i'm back there today.
and the totally open access point behind which sit various WinNT boxes with default IIS running... yeah, that's all still the same. i presented that office (anonymously) with a detailed description of their problem and an explanation of how vulnerably their balls were flapping in the wind. how in the it hasn't been addressed in the least is beyond me.
still, i thought that mentioning it might be a wake-up reminder to those of us who get mired in the technical details of Wi-Fi and other types of security. the whole state of the industry and of how wireless is handled will depend both on our community's ability to pioneer better security and the public's ability to implement it. as a society, we're still badly lacking on the latter front. not that this is a huge surprise to anyone, but it's healthy to acknowledge once in a while.
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