[51972] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Angelmo)
Wed Sep 11 06:49:31 2002
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:45:23 +0200
From: John Angelmo <john@veidit.net>
To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>
Cc: blitz <blitz@macronet.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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
