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Wardriving Worries Residents
sphynx99 writes "This article describes how residents of an upscale neighborhood in Arizona are worried about wardriving, a "new method of privacy intrusion and identity theft". Nothing to worry about, though; "The Scottsdale Police Department plans to create a cyber-crimes unit next year."
Funniest post I've read on Slashdot in weeks. Everyone knows WEP is insecure, WPA is the way to go.
I wonder how many of the people who are frightened of wardrivers in Scotsdale even HAVE wireless? Probably a small number.
Seems that every so often the "common folk" get paniced over something that they do not have a clue about. Instead of trying to figure out what the actual threat is, they jump at shadows.
Sounds like the reaction to just about any real or imagined problem in my lifetime.
"A person is smart. People are dumb and panicy and you know it." - Men in Black
"Trademarks are the heraldry of the new feudalism."
- Scottscale, AZ -- where rich, white republicans go to retire.
- Florida -- where the rest go to retire.
So, yes, please do milk those fucking bush-loving, cheap-labor republicans for all you can get. Tell them that they are "broadcasting an IP address" and that you can fix it for the low-low price of $250/hr. When they try to get you to lower your price by implying that there's such a thing as desparate mexicans-with-laptops, just laugh all the way to the bank.That's not the only problem. If you have people going around stealing credit cards via wardriving, fixing the security holes doesn't solve the problem. You still have immoral cretins hanging around who will try to steal your credit cards another way.
It's saddening, but not surprising, to see a large majority of the slashdot crowd pin the blame solely on the people whose networks have been hacked. Stop making excuses for the petty criminals.
I can give you a case in point. I work construction during the summers, while I was going to a job we had to stop at the security gate to get through. Now the security person is a real bitch, but thats ok because thats what they pay her for. Well the job gets postponed till that afternoon so we leave and come back. Security is a dick again and after I told her three times where I was going I just pulled through. Again this was annoying, but these people are paying for security. Security calls the cop that is patroling this neighborhood and only this neighborhood. The cop pulls me over and asks why I ran the security gate and when I tell him what happened he just nods and says to go ahead. Apperently he is used to the idiocy of the security guard.
Now what pissed me off is that I have friend that live on the bad side of town and they cant get the police to show for at least 45 minutes, this gated community has their own cop in a squad car, on duty no less 24/7. Then I realize something else, the roads are publicly maintained as is the sewer in this neighborhood. You cannot block off public roads, but since these people know the right people in local goverment they get their own extra services and I get to pay for it.
Sorry about the rant, had a few to many drinks and got a bit carried away.