At 10:55 AM 8/4/2001 +1200, Dean Pemberton wrote:
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 05:48:28PM -0500, Andy Gardner wrote:
Just as long as you didn't have a sticker across the top of the windscreen with "DEAN" and "SIMON" on it.
I can vouch for some of this. I gave Si and Dean a ride home. Simple enough, its on my way. So picture the front of my van, 3 largish fellows, Deans laptop (open and running of course), GPS on the dash, Si with the omni out the window, 25MW load on my cigarette lighter plug and the lappy going BOING everytime we hit a WLAN. Next time I put them in the back...... On a serious note external access to these LANS is so easy. Apart from sniffing LANS across the harbour, I've found that they're wide open. Best example (location secret). I was asked to look into a WLAN that was slow. After doing the usual and finding the problem (hardware limited to 800k) I decided to sniff. Sitting in the van down the road, with only a Lucent card (no ext aerial), I could get an IP and wander round the LAN. So then I tried Freebase (the Apple manager) (it wasn't Apple kit) and the usual password and presto I'm managing their box. The customer was pleased I could tell them their password - they had forgotten. These things are very cool, but just leave you wide open for traffic losses. richard.naylor(a)citylink.co.nz --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog