There is apparently no limit to the stupidity that Americans will pursue in their never-ending quest to escape responsibility for the children they bring into the world. I can't wait to get fitted for my offensive-thought-blocking helmet. I mean would someone PLEASE think of the CHILDREN for chrissakes??
From TFA: "Modern technology is an enabler for such attacks: if a hacker can worm his way into a conference room for just a few minutes, for example, an wireless access point can be plugged into an out-of-the way network access point, providing an open back door into the network even when the hacker is parked outside the building."
In my experience, the "bad guys" wouldn't even need to plug in a WAP. Pretty much anytime I attend offsite meetings, I can count on either the company hosting the meeting, or another business in the same building to be running an unencrypted wireless network (invariable named "linksys") which will hand my laptop an IP address and provide me with convenient internet access for the duration of my meeting. Now, this is sort of nice, as I can entertain myself during particularly boring meetings; it's sort of like a defacto municiple wifi system. But...ummm...yeah. Scary.
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There is apparently no limit to the stupidity that Americans will pursue in their never-ending quest to escape responsibility for the children they bring into the world. I can't wait to get fitted for my offensive-thought-blocking helmet. I mean would someone PLEASE think of the CHILDREN for chrissakes??
From TFA: "Modern technology is an enabler for such attacks: if a hacker can worm his way into a conference room for just a few minutes, for example, an wireless access point can be plugged into an out-of-the way network access point, providing an open back door into the network even when the hacker is parked outside the building." In my experience, the "bad guys" wouldn't even need to plug in a WAP. Pretty much anytime I attend offsite meetings, I can count on either the company hosting the meeting, or another business in the same building to be running an unencrypted wireless network (invariable named "linksys") which will hand my laptop an IP address and provide me with convenient internet access for the duration of my meeting. Now, this is sort of nice, as I can entertain myself during particularly boring meetings; it's sort of like a defacto municiple wifi system. But...ummm...yeah. Scary.