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Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs
From: John Angelmo <john () veidit net>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:21:55 +0200
Neil J. McRae wrote:
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.I agree, but people said that the spammers wouldn't be able to deal with BGP route advertisement but there was cases of spammers injecting routes sending out spam then removing those routes. Wlan is easy. Neil.
Yes you are right, but I think that the article on news.com dosn't contain any valuable information but are just there to scare ppl.
It isn't so hard to make admins secure the open hotspots, the problem is how to handle ppl who buy hour access at a café. (IMHO)
/John
Current thread:
- Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs blitz (Sep 10)
- Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs Joel Jaeggli (Sep 10)
- Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs John Angelmo (Sep 11)
- Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs Neil J. McRae (Sep 11)
- Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs John Angelmo (Sep 11)
- Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs Neil J. McRae (Sep 11)
- Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs John Angelmo (Sep 11)
- Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs Jared Mauch (Sep 11)
- Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs John Angelmo (Sep 11)
- Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs Jared Mauch (Sep 11)
- Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs Iljitsch van Beijnum (Sep 11)
- Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs David Lesher (Sep 11)
- Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs Niels Bakker (Sep 11)
- Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs Neil J. McRae (Sep 11)
- Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs Stephen Stuart (Sep 11)
- RE: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs Al Rowland (Sep 11)
- Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs Jared Mauch (Sep 11)
- RE: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs Al Rowland (Sep 11)