Re: Telling prospective wi-fi customers they are open to hacking

[Kinnell <kinnell.t () gmail com>]

How about making up fliers?  I'm not sure but if you gave one to each
house on a block where you found an "open" house then it might be like
you are advertising your services to a greater base, and not
approaching just the one house.

I wouldn't however just start going up to people and show them how you
can get into their network and view their tax papers; then you would
get into that extortion realm.

just my $.02
-K


On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:58:40 +0000, Bennett Todd <bet () rahul net> wrote:
> You can warn them --- which is a good thing to do, recommended civic
> behavior.
>
> You can try and sell the services of security auditing and repair.
>
> Do NOT attempt to do both at the same time, or at different times to
> the same customer: the "friend, this place looks really flammable,
> you need some insurance, just so happens I sell the stuff" approach
> has gotten a bad name for some reason.
>
> Approaching people and telling them they have computer security
> vulnerabilities and offering to fix them is widely taken, both by
> potential customers and the police they call, to be a style of
> extortion.
>
> -Bennett