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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
Posts: 28,987
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Steve,
I travel for a living. Recently went to Chicago and the WiFi in the hotel was not working. I fired up the laptop and did a search and found no less than 6 WiFi networks in the area. Logged onto one of them that was not secured and downloaded my emails.
I am not a hacker but if I need access and there is a WiFi network around that is not secured I will use it. Most times its another hotel or business who has not secured their system.
If someone wants to get into another company or persons computer, if they have a unsecured WiFi network, thats a backdoor for a hacker. All of my WiFi system is secured with WEP 128 encription but many people just take the unit out of the box, plug it in and start using it.
The default password for most of them is "1234" and the hackers know this. Its listed on the support website for all of the routers/switch's firms and if someone has not changed the info its easy to get in.
JoeA
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