..no crap. not many avg. moe's give a hoot.. -wire security loses out to ease-of-use.. for a countless # of reasons.. I say # 1 being most people jumped the wireless wagon on .11b with wep & haven't felt a good reason to change or LEARN about their OLD or NEW stuff. they get their email or fandango'd from the pool or the crapper & go on with their lives..
security... technology.. is.. crap.. IF it interfere's with ease-of-use. ALL of it does. This has to be a CULTURAL change from the LCDenominator, Grandma sending her first email, to us so-called FE's. how many "FE's" actually have their AP's locked down to the devices potential?? hmm... all of you? yeah, right. hey, if -wire security was SUCH A CONCERN.. why don't the OEM's offer to upgrade the existing customer base to a "more secure wi-fi solution without the compromise of EOU." there's a little product launch initiative whatever you so called marketing goofs want to call it. when pig's fly... Hey maybe the .gov would require wi-fi security a LAW - like the life saving seat-belt law?? eeww... "vere r your papers?" I'm in a rare mood right now.. hey, I believe this machine use cultural shift begins with me & some of you being a so-called-FE... then again, whatever. trying to convince is like being a dentist... I wonder why the IT suicide rate isn't going up... where's my shotgun.. ;-) have a beauty.. Brian ---------------------------------------------------- This e-mail may contain material that is confidential. Any review, reliance or distribution by others or forwarding without express permission is strictly prohibited. But I'm sure you don't give a hoot. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies received. Oh yeah, what's on this list stays on the list. Kinda like Vegas used to be for me. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------- *-----Original Message----- *From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth Crudup *Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 10:20 AM *To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject: [SOCALWUG] Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Apartment-Dwelling *Wireless User * * *... for connecting your out-the-box APs to your broadband *while retaining the default settings (no WEP, no MAC *filtering, no SSID masking, and handing out DHCP leases as *SOP) and leaving 'em on 24/7; so far, I'm *5 for 6 of being able to go to friends' houses and get *connected (with the added plus of removing a big objection of *staying at the GF's instead of having her having to drag her *stuff over to my place all the time.) * *But to the readership here, there's little surprise in this. I *don't think it's intentional, either- sometimes, the default *admin pw is still in place. * *(Thank God for SSH HTTP tunnels and SSL-encrypted E-mail, too- *don't want the folks I'm stealing bandwidth from to know where *I'm surfin', ya know :-) * * -Kenny * *-- *Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, *Los Angeles *H: 3630 S. Sepulveda Blvd. #138, L.A., CA 90034-6809 *(888) 454-8181 *
