[ILUG] Re: Strange problem with WiFi cards

Ian O'Connell ianoc at maths.tcd.ie
Sun Mar 27 00:17:51 GMT 2005


So your laptop will jump onto any network with that ESSID? bit of a
security hole no? Also i'd suggest you consider some more security on
your WiFi at home. Peap/Leap using xsupplicaticant on your laptop would
be good...

Ian.
 
 

On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:33:26PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Sat 26 Mar 2005 20:34, Ian O'Connell wrote:
> 
> > your ESSID at home is <secret>? why?
> 
> So when I go into the maths dept I don't need to change anything,
> as the ESSID is also <secret>
> 
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