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Old 10-03-2005, 16:30   #6
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Re: Warnings on woeful wi-fi security

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Originally Posted by zoombini
OK, so we find an unencrypted network, can we then easily join it & how?
Very easily!

If you using XP's Wireless Manager (and probably others) and there is a wifi router with 'out-of-the-box' (in)security, you will get an IP address and be able to access the internet and potentially any unsecure computers on that network!!
Quite scary really!
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A colleague and I were waiting to pick up our kids once and his ipaq picked up a Linksys wireless network 50m from the nearest house. Didn't have time to hack it properly, but we could probably have logged in to the router admin page ...
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