IP: Often Unguarded Wireless Networks Can Be Eavesdroppers' Gold Mine

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff@iconia.com>
>To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>
>Often Unguarded Wireless Networks Can Be Eavesdroppers' Gold Mine
>By Lee Gomes
>Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
>
>It is a Friday afternoon, and Peter Shipley and Matt Peterson are sitting in
>a late-model Saturn in a Silicon Valley parking lot, balancing notebook
>computers on their laps, checking out e-mail and looking after files.
>
>Not their own e-mail and files, but those of Sun Microsystems Inc., in whose
>lot the two are sitting and on whose corporate network they are, in effect,
>spying.
>
>"Look, there's someone transferring a file," says Mr. Peterson, looking down
>at his computer. Mr. Shipley sees even more: "There -- someone just turned
>on an NT machine and is getting mail."
>
>--SNIP--
>
>http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB988321311305822866.html
>
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