AirDefense went for a drive (or more realistically, a walk) in NYC and scanned for open wireless points. The results of which leave one with the echoes of “fire bad” drifting back to you from across the years.
From PC World:
About one third of the stores had no security at all, not even the minimal encryption provided by the flawed Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol. Another third had weak encryption, such as WEP or the pre-shared key mode of the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA PSK) specification, which was originally intended as basic security for home or SOHO WLANs.
The final third showed a quantum improvement, according to AirDefense Chief Security Officer Richard Rushing: the more advanced WPA2 specification, with 802.1X authentication brought down to every device, including handhelds, on the WLAN, and AES encryption, the strongest commercially available today. “These are the first retail stores we’ve seen with bulletproof [wireless] security,” Rushing says.
For the full scoop head on over to PC World.
[tags]Wireless Security, NYC Wireless Access, NYC Wireless, Wireless[/tags]
