RE: wireless woes in the triangle and beyond!

["Noonan, Wesley" <Wesley_Noonan () bmc com>]

I have a buddy of mine in the UK who uses rogue AP's to access the net for
free. He uses this thing he calls a "cantenna" (essentially he cracks open
the card and wires it to a metal milk carton) to boost the signal and range
so that he can hit any of a number of APs in the area. Swears by it as the
"only way to access the net"...

Wes Noonan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron DuFresne [mailto:dufresne () winternet com]
> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 22:12
> To: vuln-dev () securityfocus com; firewalls () lists gnac net
> Subject: RE: wireless woes in the triangle and beyond!
>
>
>
> Computerworld has run a story, seems the concern about CVS and petsmart is
> not as worrysome for customer info, they only have their inventory exposed
> <smile>:
>
>
> -- here's the CVS/PEYsMART story
>
> http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/technology/story/0,10801,
> 71644,00.html
>
> As well as a really intereresting one on rogue APs:
>
> http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/technology/story/0,10801,
> 71656,00.html
>
>
> Thanks to:
>
> Bob Brewin
> wireelss reporter
> Computerworld
>
> For the URLs posted above.
>
>
>
> I'll be posting a web page to highlight any insecured wep related customer
> information issues folks find in their wireless mapping efforts.  We are
> asking that if you find a company with insecure wiless setups, to verify
> that they are indeed pushing customer related info out the airwaves.
> Merely noting they are operating without wep enabled will not suffice.
> Those that send info for posting to the page listed below can either have
> that information posted anonymous or take credit for the information, just
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> and not asking to be anonymous will result in the information being posted
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>
>
> http://sysinfo.com/wirelessfewls.html
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron DuFresne
>
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