Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs

Wed Sep 11 17:35:13 UTC 2002

* alan_r1 at corp.earthlink.net (Al Rowland) [Wed 11 Sep 2002, 19:13 CEST]:
> The cost of enabling/labeling may be only a 'few cents more' but the
> cost of support when Joe Sixpack forgets his key/loses the label is
> another story altoghether. There's a reason most equipment, not just
> wireless, is deliverd in 'chimp simple' configuration... 

Lucent access points - at least, the residential gateways - actually
come with WEP enabled by default.  (Not that it's beyond trivial to
guess the key, though)

Regards,

	-- Niels.

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