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Old 23rd Sep 2002, 11:55
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Airport wireless networks lack safeguards

"At San Francisco International Airport, for example, Rushing picked up an unencrypted WLAN broadcasting the file directory of a Windows NT server and numerous PCs belonging to Northwest Airlines Inc. Rushing said the LAN was set up in such a way that a hacker could have used the available information to learn the network's topology and steal passwords."

http://www.computerworld.com/industr...,74271,00.html
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