December 01, 2002 at 11:04 PM
WiFi and my family
So during the thanksgiving break I found that my Aunt's neighbor has a wireless network that's still setup on defaults (it's a linksys by the way). So Naturally I checked my e-mail.
When I told my Father in law it spread around that I had been reading my Aunt's neighbors e-mail. So it's kind of weird because I wouldn't do that. It's amazing how sensitive the uninitiated are to this kind of thing. I think it's endemic of the challenge the technology security field faces. The real security threats require a bit more technical training and more buy in from non-technical folks to solve. Yet anyone that wants to can sidetrack a decision maker or three with a little end run on a technology that has never claimed to be secure.
