Welcome to the DARKSIDE ..
Ted Ozolins
ted1
Mon Sep 4 17:36:22 PDT 2006
Ben Duncan wrote:
>After putting it off for years, and since my College going son
>has bought a laptop for his graphic artist courses, I went to
>Best buy and bought my wife one of those $499 Gateway laptops.
>Fairly Decent machine - AMD ML32 64 bit processor, but has
>Windows XP home on it. My son's has XP Media edition, so
>now I have let 2 MicroSoft computers' into my HOUSE of Linux ...
>
>Anyway, what turned out interesting was last night found 12 -
>count 'em - 12 Wireless networks from my kitchen table.
>2 were TOTALLY unsecured, the rest were reported to be secured,
>but used WEP key with the 5 digit key - and all were
>easily cracked . Example: SSID of EAST1234 and it's password
>was EAST1 .... ANd most of them had the workgroup as ...
>You guessed it .. WORKGROUP or MSHOME ...
>
>
>Sheessss'.... will Winsloth Luser's ever learn ?
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Absolutely no.
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Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C
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