Lee, in parking lot waiting for Dillard's to open, I do my Mother's Day shopping early. Looking in App Store for WiFi scanner & there are a bunch. Can you send a screenshot of the one you prefer. Thanks.
John Sent from my iPhone > On May 14, 2017, at 11:50 AM, John Robinson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Thank you ever so much Lee, much better use of your time. > > John > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On May 14, 2017, at 11:46 AM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> This morning, for the first time this year, I brought all my junk out to the >> deck in the back yard with the idea of getting some work done. Instead, I >> ended up dissecting the WiFi landscape in the neighborhood. >> >> There’s a nice piece of free software called WiFi Scanner. (It’s in the App >> Store.) It will look for all the WiFi it can find and display lots of >> information about the source. It’s running on my MacBook Pro and is >> refreshing the scan every five seconds. >> >> I am amazed that in this suburban neighborhood, where the houses certainly >> aren’t packed together, I can see about 30 WiFi sources. Some of them aren’t >> very strong, so the number jumps up and down as sources drop in and out. >> It’s been as high as 37 at times. >> >> Oh… my… security… >> >> There are seven routers with completely open access. I joined three of them >> and was able to see the devices in the homes where they live. I’m tempted to >> send a short warning about security to their printers. >> >> Three more have passwords using only WEP encryption. WEP was never a very >> secure acronym to hide behind, and it can be broken in a few seconds by >> anyone. >> >> Four more are protected by WPA, which is better, but can still be cracked >> with some effort. >> >> The rest have WPA2, which is a lot better. (WPA2+AES is the choice everyone >> should use.) >> >> L^2 >> >> >> >> >> >> --- >> Lee Larson [email protected] (502)741–0370 >> >> Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet >> if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt. >> — Neil deGrasse Tyson >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> Posting address: [email protected] >> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> >> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
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