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Published on The O'Reilly Network (http://www.oreillynet.com/)
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2002/03/29/wardriver.html
"I realized what I was finding was not a failure of the technology, but a human failure. Sure, WEP isn't great and it can be broken, we all know that, but it is at least a good "front door." The process of cracking the WEP keys is much more time consuming, especially on a slow network, than most hackers are willing to hang around for (unless they live next door). After studying my logs, tracking down owners of these networks was relatively easy. In hopes of aiding some of these folks, I called them, introduced myself, and told them what I had found.
I got a variety of responses. Many people were simply not aware of this security issue, and admitted they just took the device out of the box and plugged it in. Also, many smaller shops had "professionals" come in and install their equipment, but security was never discussed.
One IT manager, shocked that I had found him from so far away, admitted that they chose not to use WEP because of the overhead involved. True, you can expect to reduce your throughput about 1 Mb/sec using WEP, but I think the trade off is worth it. "
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Tim O'Reilly reports from the futureTim O'Reilly d ....
Interesting that O'Reilly doesn't mention the 2 way web (except indirectly via Weblogs)...
Tim O'Reilly reports from the future
Tim O'Reilly describes the future as writ by the alpha geeks that his publishing company mines for inspiration. Great editorial!
All of these things come together into what I'm calling "the emergent Internet operating system." The facilities being pioneered by thousands of individual hackers and entrepreneurs will, without question, be integrated into a standardized platform that enables a next generation of applications. (This is the theme of our Emerging Technologies conference in Santa Clara May 13-16, "Building the Internet Operating System.") The question is, who will own that platform?LinkDiscuss
posted by Cory Doctorow at 22:25 [bOing bOing]
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Jon Schull.
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