[51989] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Wed Sep 11 13:36:33 2002
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:35:13 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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* alan_r1@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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