[Vision2020] Florida man charged with stealing Wi-Fi signal

[Scott Dredge]

Great win for the Mariners last night.  One of the
announcers (Ron Fairly I believe) rattled off one of
those quirky "on this date in baseball history" stats.

July 25, 1930 -- The Philadelphia Athletics pull off a
triple steal in the first inning and again in the
fourth against the Cleveland Indians.

-Scott

--- Carl Westberg <carlwestberg846 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> "Configure your network with MAC address
> authorization and with 128-bit WEP. 
>   Even better, if possible, use WAP".  
> Umm.....right.  Am I the only one 
> who has no idea what Scott just wrote?  Or am I a
> pair of brown shoes in a 
> black tuxedo world?  How about those Mariners?      
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>              Carl Westberg Jr.
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> >From: Scott Dredge <sdredge at yahoo.com>
> >To: "'Vision 2020'" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> >Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Florida man charged with
> stealing Wi-Fi signal
> >Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:22:28 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >And for those of you who have a wireless network,
> >configure your network with MAC address
> authorization
> >and with 128-bit WEP.  Even better, if possible,
> use
> >WAP.  Serious hackers can get through these, but
> it's
> >unlikely that someone driving by looking for access
> >points will go to the trouble of cracking a WEP/MAC
> >protected network.
> >
> >-Scott
> >
> >--- Mike Hall <mikech at fsr.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Here’s an interesting story worth knowing about.
> > > Though mooching WiFi has
> > > become more common, it isn’t such a good idea
> after
> > > all.  Just like you
> > > wouldn’t run an electric cable over from your
> > > neighbor’s house, you should
> > > get your own broadband connection too.
> > >
> > >
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