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Monday, July 21, 2003

Hot spots elude RIAA dragnet

The anonymity provided by wireless broadband access points is hindering the record industry's fight to stop people from trading songs and movies online. Wed Jul 16 04:00:00 PDT 2003 http://ct.com.com/click?q=b8-smr2QQUVXVx2HOo5RRYAp83DWn9R
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Cometa hot spots to get cold shoulder?

Cometa Networks is bustling to meet an ambitious schedule aimed at making it the biggest provider of "hot spots." But speed may be more important than size in this race. Mon Jul 21 04:00:00 PDT 2003 http://ct.com.com/click?q=bc-zkPJQ6BnunIjkFWgeGcXXEEHOZdR
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3 Blinks Means You're Hot: A Wireless Network Tracker. You've seen them wandering through airports and conference centers, holding laptops up at strange angles and squinting at the screens. They move slowly forward, then backward. Then they often scratch their heads, stow their computers and wander off muttering. By Glenn Fleishmann. [New York Times: Technology]
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Intersil quits 'overcrowded' WiFi, finds sucker to buy. Long odds [The Register]
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Hotspots - cold turkey or Big Mac?. Why not try selling more food? [The Register]
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GlobespanVirata Buys Intersil's WiFi Biz. Perhaps indicative of the competitive nature of the wireless market, GlobespanVirata agreed late Tuesday to buy Intersil's wireless operations for $365 million in cash and stock. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis]
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The Hacker's Wireless Toolbox

This is Part 1 of a two-part series outlining the ways that hackers can break into wireless LANs and the tools they use to accomplish this. In Part 1, Brian Moran of AirDefense talks about the vulnerabilities of WLANs and limitations of wireless security.

http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,82932,00.html?nlid=MW
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