IP: Welcome to the era of drive-by hacking

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

BBC News Online has been shown just how lax security is on wireless 
networks used in London's financial centre.

On one short trip, two-thirds of the networks we discovered using a laptop 
and free software tools were found to be wide open.

Any maliciously minded hacker could easily join these networks and piggy 
back on their fast net links, steal documents or subvert other machines on 
the systems to do their bidding.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1639000/


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