While I knew this was how it was a long time ago, the first time I saw such a thing in action was at the HTCIA conference a few years back. One of the AT&T folks who was there had a wireless LAN PCMCIA card rigged in his computer and just popped up the old network neighborhood. There they were, a few dozen computers all using the default network information, all accessible over the air. He briefly went into a few remote disks, added a file, copied a file out, then undid it all. It was a simple enough demonstration, it didn't take but a minute, and we all laughed. We knew that the wireless revolution would mean even less protection and more job security.
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