 YowzaaahOurs Go To Eleven
join:2000-12-14
DamnFlat, OH
| a modest proposal... All new wireless equipment leave the factory in a state whereby they cannot be plugged in and work right out of the box. I am convinced that a majority of these wireless security holes occur when someone with enough knowledge to be dangerous either tacks on an AP or "resets" a piece of misbehaving equipment with a paperclip.
Recently two national hotel chains I've stayed in have had MAJOR security issues with their WiFi as offered to guests. At one, the wireless router still had the default L/P unchanged. Quick lookup on the net and I'm in. From inside the router I could see every machine currently logged in, their MAC addresses, etc. I could have routed all traffic through my laptop and sniffed/logged packets, etc. I could have changed the password, I could have done a lot of things, but I didn't. I chuckled and did nothing since I didn't want to try to explain the problem to the clueless night clerk and I was gone in the morning.
It's in Newark, CA if there are any wardrivers out there who want to do a good deed and got there some afternoon to tell the head housekeeper, IM me and I'll hook you up with the address.
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