[51958] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Tue Sep 10 18:54:52 2002
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:55:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: blitz <blitz@macronet.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020910184207.03985580@mail.macronet.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
It always figures, that when you create a commons, virtual or actual that
someone will come along and mess it up.
joelja
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, blitz wrote:
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> >And you think the terresterial sources are hard to shut down....
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> >Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs
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> >By Graeme Wearden
> >Special to CNET News.com
> >September 6, 2002, 10:14 AM PT
> >http://news.com.com/2100-1033-956911.html
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> >LONDON--The proliferation of insecure corporate wireless networks is
> >fueling the growth of drive-by spamming, a security expert warned on
> >Thursday.
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