[pchelpers] Re: unprotected wireless networks

Hi Ekhart,

Wednesday, August 31, 2005, 2:00:24 AM, you wrote:

EGlnl> http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/content.cfm?articleid=5905&EID=0
EGlnl> Holman says society can apply those current laws, educate
EGlnl> consumers, and go after WLAN vendors that continue to ship
EGlnl> products with security settings switched off. "They've
EGlnl> consistently chosen not to do this," he says. "We should make
EGlnl> them turn this on or at least have a better [security] setup
EGlnl> feature."

I think there's an element of naiveness here. If you buy a wireless
router that has security enabled, then how are you supposed to connect
to it? The only thing that I can think of is for the vendor to
generate a key and ship it with the router. And if the paper with the
key on it gets lost, the user is up the creek.

Similar issues are present with other security features, and I can
testify that some computers are such a pain to set up on wireless that
you really want the security to be off beforehand.

-- 
Scott.




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