News - The Incredible Hype bursts from wireless security drive
Source: KEWNEW
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An important publicity vehicle has been launched, on which incredible hype can be mounted, in the battle to persuade reluctant businesses to buy security hardware, software and solution services. Do we care?
Stubbornly refusing to get worried about wireless security, the world is to get a kick up the bum from this week, from an organisation called "The Worldwide Wardrive" - trying to encourage us to take it seriously.
The organisation has done one wardrive already - last year, 31 August to 7 September - which discovered lots and lots of wireless sites, not all of which were entirely secure. They found nearly 10,000 sites in total, of which six and a half thousand had no WEP security at all.
Now they're doing it again, and before you go to their site, be warned, switch off colour on your display. It will tell you (the site):
