Unsecured Wireless/802.11b/Passwords
Tim May
tcmay at got.net
Sun Nov 11 19:01:49 PST 2001
At the gathering in the Sierras I mentioned, there were many interesting
things revealed.
One was a map of thousands of "open" communications channels over
wireless links, e.g., 802.11b--just in the Bay Area. In use by
government agencies, even security firms doing police state work. It was
interesting to see what a Yagi antenna mounted in a truck or on a good
hilltop could do for harvesting tens of thousands of passphrases and
slurping down gigabytes of files.
The government agencies are filled with incompetents.
--Tim May, Occupied America
"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.
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