NAC: Wifi .....WAS Subject: Re: bay area shop rec

[Rocky Mullin]

At 2:35 AM -0500 2/24/04, SuffolkD at aol.com wrote:
>NAC:
>I just read on the plane in MobliePC mag or the like, a story about 
>"war driving". These guys use software to check out everyone's home 
>LAN & Wifi set up in communities.  Not so harmless until a savy WiFi 
>user can check his router browser to see who's surfed his 
>network........That's E-mail info and such.

	there's a mac app called mac stumbler that's a lot of fun.
just drive around in the back of a car with it running and it beeps
every time it sees a network.  lots of people leave the out-of-box
password in place.  those of us in the know should spread the word
to others to put a password on there - unless they want to share.
there's kind of a grassroots movement of folks who set up access
points that are free.

>and if its your friendly police department's "hot spot" for their 
>patrolman's computers in cars..........................hope those 
>photos weren't nudies...................

	you can find logs online of chat coversations and stuff that
various PD uses.  the one i saw years ago was from chicago.  they are
now certainly encrypted, maybe not even on the same part of the spectrum.

>The article also goes on about these kids who cracked the Lowe's 
>warehouse LAN / WiFi system and stole credit card accounts and info.

	yup, security is important.


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