802.11b devices are not WiFi complient unless they support WEP. I'm certain that all of their WLAN devices had this capability. Now we all know that WEP is weak but even implementing this weak "encryption" would have likley prevented this story from happening.
AFAIK all Symbol WLAN equipment support WEP and almost all of their equipment supports their kerberos authentication capability. BB uses Cisco AP's and Symbol WLAN scanners at least this is what I remember seeing in their stores. So why roll out a insecure implementation in the first place? If the device has no security capabilities, why use it? There are many other retailers with the exact same problem On Fri, 3 May 2002, Stuart Henderson wrote: > Not necessarily - if it's a ready-made wireless cash register which doesn't > come with security features, it's down to the people who made it.. (and, if > that is the case, it suggests other retailers have the same problem). -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
