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War Driving The Pentagon
from the security-anyone? dept
By this point, if you have anything to do with wireless networks, you should know how to secure a basic wireless access point. However, it looks like plenty of government agencies have no clue. A test around Washington DC found that many government agencies had open WiFi networks -- including at least one at the Pentagon. Now, there are a lot of misconceptions out there about open WiFi networks, but one place where there really probably should not be one so easily accessible is the Pentagon. It is entirely possible, however, that they set up a completely separate network for guests -- but somehow that seems unlikely. The article suggests that the problem is often because of government contractors, who (if anything) should be even more aware of the issue. Still, you have to hand it to someone for actually "war driving" at the Pentagon. Now, who's going to war chalk the place?
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pentagon wifi
on the other hand, its probably some idiot gop apointee ....
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Wardriving the Pentagon
I've seen street views of the White House and the Pentagon on Google Maps. They claim that they accidentally war-drove as they sampled the world. In fact they collected data which may have been hacked by the Chinese. Haven't they deliberately or, if you believe them, inadvertently violated federal law?
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