Study: Wi-Fi users still don't encrypt

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.

Study: Wi-Fi users still don't encrypt 2003-07-10
jaxxofdeath

is it really all that surprizing the attacks and unencrypted access points what is suprizing is that so little session hijacking(man in the middle) attempts were successful the reason most people dont encrypt there network(not that it would be much of a challenge to a real hacker because WEP was bad...

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