Here's a ridiculous article written by someone who was a) on deadline b) already drunk from Friday lunchtime c) knowing nothing about WiFi
is the link, and the most salient part of the article was: http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=30792 Relevant piece of the article: "Conducted over a three-week period in this past February and March, the two networks were set up in office locations away from any areas that were known to have been discovered by hackers, who usually mark the location of any wireless LAN network they find with so-called 'war-chalking' symbols. RSA wasn't keen to divulge exactly where the networks were set up, but the company's strategic marketing director, Tim Pickard, tells Unstrung that the intent was to make them "a challenge to find." Over the course of the experiment, the RSA networks were accessed on twenty-nine different occasions, with one hacker casually spending 90 carefree minutes online. The first unauthorized connection was made only two hours and thirty-five minutes after the networks went live." So -- let me get this right a) they put open APs out there, presumably broacasting their SSIDs b) people discovered them c) people used them. And this, apparently, was "hacking" It kind of reminds me of the good old days of the Web when anyone who could string together a couple of <form>s and a spinning flaming logo could call themselves an HTML programmer. The motivation for this piece of absurdity remains unclear until we learn that the effort was sponsored by RSA Security whose job it is, surprisingly, to provide system security software to... Wait for it... Networks. Well now *there's* a surprising coincidence. A moment's casual reflection (with a few beers in myself, courtesy of the Chieftain, which I don't believe is WiFi enabled but which does a smashing pie and beans) suggests that all of this was dreamed up by the sort of PR drone/flack who gives the rest of us suits a bad name, this idea being conceived whilst in the "tired and emotional" state following a session highlighted in item (b) in the first para. Above. Or perhaps I'm being churlish. Cheers -- dhk -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
