The Dangers of Open WiFi

[getalife67]

This news report is talking about a rogue access points

[getalife67]

Yea war driving, packet sniffers, blue snarfing better have a good IDS in place and turn off your beaconing on the router! and man in the middle attacks most hotels WiFi is open so don't trust them

[yoiam69]

Wow use tor or hotspot come on people. But yes airports are a great and other places place as. I still prefer hotels a lot more comparable.  But either way it will never stop happening.

[Darkteammadfiz]

Use Linux!!! No virus :D

[busybuzzbuzz]

I think this is a fear tactic to increase the sales of individual wireless routers and subscriptions

[MrMurad1234]

logging on the banks are ok actually but writing ur card number is bad

[indiasucksalways]

How idiotic.

[Aamodt]

If it is unecrypted you should run all the activity over SSL tunnels or something to encrypt the data on transfer. really easy to do

[NewAgeOrder]

Save lives and become a hero

[NewAgeOrder]

Tear down your local 'cancer stick' today!

[slacker437]

Windows sucks. In order to make a program start itself, I think the only way is to gain root access, at least with the rc.d scripts.

However, they can still read all you do and browse, since the info goes through them. It's a good method to steal identities, seriously.

[factsnow]

dont forget getting cooked, its 2.4ghz, same as a Microwave Oven..

[xwicked7]

lol they're using kismet and KDE :/

[Alagathevictor]

Think of it this way:

A wifi is like a campfire. 1. A guy with protected wifi is basically saying: Oooh this is my campfire, i made it so nobody else shall sit around it (even though there are plenty of space)

2. A guy with unprotected is saying: Hey everybody come and join me here at my campfire, I know u would welcome me too if u had one:)

[Flashkidgotsuspended]

Either way, someone still is paying for it. But with situation 2, one pays while everyone else leeches. That's the negative.

FK

[bmxbike525]

tgat sucks =( 8 was gonna get an xp laptop 4 the makayama thing 4 internet anywhere but not anymore im gonna get vista