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Study: Wi-Fi users still don't encrypt
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-07-03

Think you've heard more than enough about war driving and Wi-Fi insecurity? Two days of electronic eavesdropping at the 802.11 Planet Expo in Boston last week sniffed out more evidence that most Wi-Fi users still aren't getting the message -- or are comfortable broadcasting their e-mail into the ether.

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Study: Wi-Fi users still don't encrypt 2003-07-10
Anonymous
Yes, the 80211conferce SSID that was enabled did NOT have WEP or any other provisions for security, so what would you expect people to do?

[Even if WEP was turned on, after seeing what the folks in the Security tutorial could do to 'somewhat easily' decipher it, what's the point?] So, the reality ...

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