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Drive-By Hacking in London
delibes writes "The BBC News website carries this story about hacking wireless networks in London's financial centre. " There isn't really much in the way of details, just saying that many businesses don't encrypt their networks. They talk about finding 12 networks while driving 1km... 8 of which had no encryption.
Hacking (er cracking) seems to get more and more low-tech, it's now been reduced to actually leaving your house. What is the world coming to?
All your Pounds are belong to us
Roger that, we have one network down on the corner of State and Madison!
This is definitely proof that times are changing.
"...and postin me too like some brain at AOL-er" -- Wierd Al
from the article:
"From an attackers point of view you want back roads because there is less road traffic," said Codex, "and you might be able to park when you find a network."
Are they seriously suggesting that you can find a parking space in central London during office hours?
A pizza of radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi z z a
Could the next great bank robbery movie's big scene be some guy driving by the bank in an old Cadillac with a laptop and 802.11b in his lap while hacking money into his account?
the byproduct of years of oppression by the white man
Actually, the European Commission has declared that the "Square Mile" will soon be known as the "Square Kilometre". Companies based in the existing square mile are fighting eachother off to move even closer to the centre, for fear that when the smaller kilometre is imposed, they will be left outside, in plain old Central London.
Its lucky that nothing like that would ever happen in the land of the free.
ps. I hate responding to so called trolls, but this one has been modded up twice
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Rumor (should that be rumour?) has it that the euro was invented so that the pound sterling would not be replaced by the kilogram(me).
I'm off down the pub for a quick litre.
you guys are so slow. everyone knows that for that last few years, to break into any major computer system, you just hold down control and double click on the pi sign on the bottom right hand corner of your screen.
The world moves for love. It kneels before it in awe.
Not wanting to spoil all their fun, I allocated them some bandwidth
And having walked around the streets of New York and San Francisco at night, I think [cameras] wouldn't go amiss there either.
The Mob would never stand for it.
Although it's quite off-topic, I had a really interesting experience one night while walking around the streets of NY. On my way back to the hotel I noticed that the street I was on was rather deserted and although I was a little uncomfortable about that I didn't know which streets might be better (or worse!), so I forged on.
At one intersection a man intercepted me. He was well-dressed, expensive coat over an expensive suit, nice shoes, perfect hair, etc. He very politely asked me where I was going and if he could help me find my way. I told him which hotel I was going to and he gave me precise and easy to follow directions.
I noticed, however, that his directions seemed to take me a couple of blocks out of my way, and that it would be shorter if I just continued the direction I was going. When I mentioned that it seemed better to go straight he politely but very firmly told me that it would be better to follow his directions, because this wasn't a good street to be on late at night.
At that point (I'm a little slow) I put things together and decided that if a very nicely dressed man of Italian ethnicity, standing all alone in the shadows on a dark and empty NY street late at night, tells me that particular street is a bad place for me to be, I should listen!
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You could try this. But at "fleabag.com" we use one time passwords generated by cryptocards for network access that originates outside a secure location. :-)
The MCSE gag was hurtful....