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Date:      Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:14:10 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:09.signal
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20030813111143.02f00900@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030811131549.66226A-100000@fledge.watson.o rg>
References:  <20030811120239.F16077@odysseus.silby.com>

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At 11:19 AM 8/11/2003, Robert Watson wrote:

>Hey, if you want unusual computing activities from cars, try this one on. 
>While driving home from the Shenandoah Valley this weekend, we ran into
>car problems.

If you'd watched where you were going, you would have stopped
before hitting them. ;-)

>  While waiting for roadside service, I pulled out my
>notebook, found two access points, and submitted changes on our
>integration of MAC support into IPsec in Perforce.  I ran into about 60
>wireless devices on the drive back, of which 35 were APs.  60% of these
>didn't use WEP.

That's typical. Even in our little town, there are lots and lots of
open APs. Ours, however, let you see only a friendly introductory Web
page until you log in, with reliable, strong encryption (not WEP).

--Brett Glass



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