2WireXXX is the default name a vendor uses for its AP's, I can't remember what one. It's no different than seeing Linksys. The owners of the house aren't the ones to be worries about. It's their kids. You can't assume they are idiots. My wife's nephew is just going into college, and a few months ago I doubt he would know how to install Windows on his laptop. A couple weeks ago he mentions how he and his friends use Ubuntu now and get kicks out of looking for WEP networks to crack. I'm not saying he's suddenly a genius. I still doubt that he would be able to correctly install Windows and all the drivers on a modern laptop, but he knows how to install Ubuntu and the tools he needs to crack wireless networks where security was weak, and he knows how to do it well enough that people should care.
-- Mike Gill From: Murray Freeman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 11:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Is it possible to pinpoint a WIFI connection I'm well aware that someone with, as I said, wifi knowledge could see my router even with the radio broadcast turned off. But I get the distinct feeling that none of my neighbors has that kind of knowledge. I base that on the 2 neighbors who are using their family names, and the 4 neighbors who have "2wire" as their network names, not to mention the poor idiot who is using the default settings that come up when you turn the router on the very first time. Murray ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
