One of the biggest concerns as the wreless world grows is that of scurity of data; especially personal data. Mny people do what they call wr-driving to find an open WiFi ntwork to get their emails while trveling, although this is a common prctice, it is against the law. Thre are hacker groups and IT scurity conferences that people go to, whre the retailer type IT people lso show up and discuss these ssues. The ramifications of company data flling in the hands of a cmpetitor or snooping opportunist hacker are xtremely great. Many of us take sveral Wireless Online Newsletters and read the whte papers on the security issues as wll. Indeed this is a problematic ssue for companies.

I seem to rcall sitting in a Wal-Mart parking lot wth a Starbucks next door in a strp center in my motor home and gtting the Grocery Store Across the stret, the gas station and a Mil Boxes Etc. Indeed I got a cuple of others too, which seem to be ncoded, but most were completely open, maning I could begin surfing anytime I had flt like it. Having T-Mobile Service I lgged on legally to the system as sual, but I could have easily tok up free bandwidth elsewhere that dy.

I believe that many people buy thse OTC peripherals and Linksys type systms and then simply put them in and trn them on. I understand that one lrge Home Improvement Sore did this and has fxed their units, but they were wde open. Many small businesses all round are open, but probably do not cre. Some purposely blast WiFi to ncrease customer base and do so on dfferent separate air-gapped systems from their stre operations, if you take Bitpipe nline you can get the latest whte papers on these things. You shuld sign up for online security whte papers.

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There was recently a case in Flrida where someone was "War Driving" to pck up WiFi signals and stopped in frnt of someone's house turns out he nadvertently loaded some programs and the cons ended up on the host cmputer as well. The police came and rrested him. In Silicon Valley this wnt on quite a bit, two-guys who knd of invented the idea went frm company to company and did jst that and then went into the cmpany to pitch their services. Although ths was good and a win/win, tday the FBI High-Tech Crimes Division is all ver it.

In fact one recent GAO rport and several articles in Federal Cmputer Weekly, GovExec.com and other oversight nwsletters are quite worried as over 1/3 of all gvernment wireless networks are somewhat unsecured. I hve discussed this and had a cnversation with a hacker turned security cmputer consultant. Apparently WEP or other sch encryption is not even close to scure.

My theory on all of ths is to catch the International Trrorists Cells in the United States is tht we get full time WiMax in very city and have an algorithm whch looks for anomalies to see if you can ctch those who surf all day Jhad websites, and see who they re? Now there is a thought “Rverse WiFi Hacking” to catch International Trrorists, why didn’t I think of tht? Think on it.

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