A wardrive..... :eek:

What gets me is the fact that most admins just dont seem to know that if there is a WAP in the network. Most large networks that have 100+++ users never seem to keep up with their netowrk. even with admin, jr admins crawling all over the place they never notice Bob with his WiFi card in his laptop so he can use his PDA with a wire... Bob thinks its nifty, but it is a logistical nightmare.

In my network, I got hopping mad at the person who thought that they would use their 802.11b to bridge DSL from the company to thier offices in the next building ... none the less, unencrypted and streaming data that isnt public. Another source of many wifi problems are hospitals, they like the new wireless data that they can run to PDAs for their Docs. But forget that thier weak encryption is beaming patient info. a very very very big no no. the thing is thier admins are to overconfident in their systems and dont get an outside security consultant to check it out. ADMINS WAKE UP AND GET OUTSIDE CONSULTING!!!!!!!!

Home users are just plain stupid, they have no clue what anything does... makes me feel sorry for their ignorance, but than again, that is thier fault!

^^Shugart^^

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Home users are just plain stupid, they have no clue what anything does... makes me feel sorry for their ignorance, but than again, that is thier fault!

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You have to watch what you say here biATCH, of i will slap you with my home wired network :D

I live in a townhome community, in my neighborhood alone there are about 10 wide open wireless networks, all broadcasting their SSID, and most are the default (linksys, belkin54g, etc.). Using a stumbler, I can pretty much nail down whose townhome has the open connection. I have often been tempted to knock on their door and offer my services as a wireless network security consultant. I would configure the access point and clients to use encryption, MAC address filtering, and set the SSID to nonbroadcast. How much should I charge? It would take about an hour to set up. Say around $200?

Suddenly i feel safe and secure in old ways like mine of network by wires, atleast you have to be physically here to access it.(ok you can copy my mac but at any given time ether you can login or me) .
and as one of post yesterday said that it took 50 years to break a lock using simple trick, well i think old ways have there days being praised here. but what else can we say about this wireless access that we can all easily tap on and best of all , we don't have to even more our butt for that(except for driving , of course)
Thank god , when my account expires this time atleast i ave backup plan to access internet till i clear my dues. :-)