***Wooo hooo! I went to Tahoe last weekend and there was snow. Crossing my fingers here and hoping for a good boarding season!***
Anyhow, considering that I had to work on chapters and all, my wife drove to Tahoe. During the ride (while I was typing away), I decided to do a little of war driving and see how many unsecure networks were out there. Granted flying down the highway at 80mph the speed limit doesn’t really let your use these networks. But, considering I hadn’t done this activity in a very long time, I thought this might be an interesting experiment.
Well, the results floored me. While driving through the SF Bay (680 to 80) area and again through the Sacramento area, I don’t think that there was a single mile without at least one unsecure wireless network. Yes, there were tons of “Linksys”, “Default”, and “### Family” SSIDs out there. But, what really amazed me where the random SSIDs that clearly belonged to companies. You would think, by now, in the year 2007, almost the year 2008 that people would know how to at least turn on some form of security on their access points. Heck, I bet most of these APs still had their default passwords.
So, that being said, this kinda brought a bigger question to my mind. Why don’t vendors force some level of balanced security for the consumer market? You heard me SMC, Cisco, DLink, NetGear, etc. When I buy a consumer product from you, why not give it to me in a semi-secure state? Do you think consumers are dumb?
Thoughts…
