Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs

John Angelmo john at veidit.net
Wed Sep 11 10:45:23 UTC 2002


Neil J. McRae wrote:
>>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.

Just cause there are unprotected WLANs dosn't imply that spammers use 
them (perhaps its to hard for the spammers ;)).
Corporations should protect ther WLANs but saying that spamming is a 
great threat is to overdo it.

Regards
John




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