IP: As Wireless Networks Grow, So Do Security Fears

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
> To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
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> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 09:29:01 +0200
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> As Wireless Networks Grow, So Do Security Fears
> By JOHN SCHWARTZ
> The New York Times
>
> AVI RUBIN did not mean to hack into the hospital's computer network; it
> practically begged him to.
>
> Mr. Rubin, a computer security expert at AT&T Laboratories in Florham Park,
> N.J., had accompanied his wife, Ann, to the nearby Morristown Memorial
> Hospital while she had minor surgery last month. He brought along his laptop
> so that he could do some work while she napped during recovery. But as he
> sat in her room, he noticed a green light blinking on the card that he
> ordinarily used to connect his laptop to the wireless computer network
> installed in his home.
>
> The hospital, like many businesses, colleges and even neighborhoods, had
> installed its own wireless network — in its case to give employees access to
> the computer system anywhere in the building. It had adopted the popular
> emerging standard for such networks, known as 802.11b or Wi-Fi; the
> hospital's network, apparently set to the most welcoming mode of operation,
> automatically granted access to Mr. Rubin's machine.
>
> --SNIP--
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/technology/19WIRE.html?pagewanted=all
>
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