Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs

[John Angelmo <john () veidit net>]

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