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Old 01-02-2007, 06:30 AM  
rowan
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Originally Posted by testpie View Post
While that is very true, most people who leave their access point unencrypted haven't got much of a clue about Wi-Fi technology; they just go to their store, get conned by a salesman into buying a 125 Mbps Wi-Fi router because it will "make your broadband faster", rip it out of the box and plug it in.
Doesn't need to be the owner of AP snooping, anyone within range can capture the packets. There's still also the chance that the AP is something more than a cheap router with a default connection - someone connecting to my (deliberately open) AP will have everything logged.
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