I believe the question was use of the access to spam, not just that the majority of users leave their equipment (all, not just the wireless part) in the original, out-of-the-box configuration. Remember those comments on the flahsing 12:00 on most VCRs? BTW, everyone out there with a random number/character upper/lower case password at least 12 characters long on every piece of equipment they own, different username/password on each piece please, raise your hand. Thought so. ;) Note my hand is not raised. I'd go nuts. Although the approriate pieces do conform to this. Best regards, _________________________ Alan Rowland -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Neil J. McRae Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 3:37 AM To: John Angelmo Cc: blitz; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs
I must be honest, I havn't heard of any reports here in Sweden (or anywhere else) that this is a real problem, are there any true incidents that this has happend?
Yes. If you sit with your laptop in the park across from our office you can see 3 unprotected wireless domains. There was an article [although I can't remember what publication] featuring a few people driving through the City of London [London's financial community area] they found serveral unprotected LANs. Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking neil@DOMINO.ORG