IP: Often Unguarded Wireless Networks Can Be Eavesdroppers' Gold Mine

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
> To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> Often Unguarded Wireless Networks Can Be Eavesdroppers' Gold Mine
> By Lee Gomes
> Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
>
> It is a Friday afternoon, and Peter Shipley and Matt Peterson are sitting in
> a late-model Saturn in a Silicon Valley parking lot, balancing notebook
> computers on their laps, checking out e-mail and looking after files.
>
> Not their own e-mail and files, but those of Sun Microsystems Inc., in whose
> lot the two are sitting and on whose corporate network they are, in effect,
> spying.
>
> "Look, there's someone transferring a file," says Mr. Peterson, looking down
> at his computer. Mr. Shipley sees even more: "There -- someone just turned
> on an NT machine and is getting mail."
>
> --SNIP--
>
> http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB988321311305822866.html
>
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