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Question of the Day: Have you ever been to an airshow?
Plaasjapie
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High risk Wifi networks
With the amount of commercial WISP's out there, it really is scary what you are able to "see" in the air. Modern software makes it very easy to see e-mail login details, websites visited, cookies with password details of websites like facebook, etc, etc. It is really amazing and it is a legal time bomb waiting to happen in my opinion. Even encrypted (which is not that many) networks can be hacked.
Here in my area there are relative big WISP's running totally unsecure networks with 300 - 1000 clients. Companies like lawyers, wineries, doctors etc, all their sensitive e-mail communication at risk.
With the amount of commercial WISP's out there, it really is scary what you are able to "see" in the air. Modern software makes it very easy to see e-mail login details, websites visited, cookies with password details of websites like facebook, etc, etc. It is really amazing and it is a legal time bomb waiting to happen in my opinion. Even encrypted (which is not that many) networks can be hacked.
Here in my area there are relative big WISP's running totally unsecure networks with 300 - 1000 clients. Companies like lawyers, wineries, doctors etc, all their sensitive e-mail communication at risk.
WPS with a pin is extremely poor security and it seems Huawei devices is also susceptible to this. And to make matters worse the E5186 does not have a "disable" feature.
And to make matters even more worse is that Huawei only supports products for a month and then all traces of that product is removed so the chances of getting an update is very slim. Which is good news for anybody who wants to hack my Wi-Fi and get free internet :-(
And to make matters even more worse is that Huawei only supports products for a month and then all traces of that product is removed so the chances of getting an update is very slim. Which is good news for anybody who wants to hack my Wi-Fi and get free internet :-(