RE: wireless woes in the triangle and beyond!

Wesley_Noonanat_private

I have a buddy of mine in the UK who uses rogue AP's to access the net for
free. He uses this thing he calls a "cantenna" (essentially he cracks open
the card and wires it to a metal milk carton) to boost the signal and range
so that he can hit any of a number of APs in the area. Swears by it as the
"only way to access the net"...

Wes Noonan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron DuFresne [mailto:dufresneat_private]
> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 22:12
> To: vuln-devat_private; firewallsat_private
> Subject: RE: wireless woes in the triangle and beyond!
> 
> 
> 
> Computerworld has run a story, seems the concern about CVS and petsmart is
> not as worrysome for customer info, they only have their inventory exposed
> <smile>:
> 
> 
> -- here's the CVS/PEYsMART story
> 
> http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/technology/story/0,10801,
> 71644,00.html
> 
> As well as a really intereresting one on rogue APs:
> 
> http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/technology/story/0,10801,
> 71656,00.html
> 
> 
> Thanks to:
> 
> Bob Brewin
> wireelss reporter
> Computerworld
> 
> For the URLs posted above.
> 
> 
> 
> I'll be posting a web page to highlight any insecured wep related customer
> information issues folks find in their wireless mapping efforts.  We are
> asking that if you find a company with insecure wiless setups, to verify
> that they are indeed pushing customer related info out the airwaves.
> Merely noting they are operating without wep enabled will not suffice.
> Those that send info for posting to the page listed below can either have
> that information posted anonymous or take credit for the information, just
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> and not asking to be anonymous will result in the information being posted
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> 
> 
> http://sysinfo.com/wirelessfewls.html
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ron DuFresne
> 
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