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I'm back... (and scanning for WiFi)
I decided that I would get back into blogging. Nearly six months have gone by since I've said anything here.
On my way back to school yesterday, I decided to get my laptop out and see how many wireless networks I could find. Almost as soon as we got on the main road, three networks popped up, all secured. A few more popped up at different points, and within a matter of minutes, I realized how popular the SSID "linksys" was and how many of those were unsecured. It seems as though all of those were stock Linksys wireless routers with everything set as default. Heck, as I sit here in my dorm typing this, I see an unsecured network named "linksys" (I know who's router this is, too). On my way to school yesterday, I was scanning for networks for about 30 minutes, and I saw "linksys" appear nearly 25 or 30 times. Some other networks had more creative names, and some were business names, and most of those were secured networks. If we weren't sailing down Route 30 as fast through York, I believe I could've attempted to connect to at least one of the unsecured networks and browse the internet.
On my way back to school yesterday, I decided to get my laptop out and see how many wireless networks I could find. Almost as soon as we got on the main road, three networks popped up, all secured. A few more popped up at different points, and within a matter of minutes, I realized how popular the SSID "linksys" was and how many of those were unsecured. It seems as though all of those were stock Linksys wireless routers with everything set as default. Heck, as I sit here in my dorm typing this, I see an unsecured network named "linksys" (I know who's router this is, too). On my way to school yesterday, I was scanning for networks for about 30 minutes, and I saw "linksys" appear nearly 25 or 30 times. Some other networks had more creative names, and some were business names, and most of those were secured networks. If we weren't sailing down Route 30 as fast through York, I believe I could've attempted to connect to at least one of the unsecured networks and browse the internet.
2 Comments:
Nice to see you back on blogging. :-)
My WiFi was hacked once, and I am much more careful this time.
Nice to have you back.
As far as Linksys goes, I've found them to be quite popular among small businesses and some home power users.
The Windows NT client to Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE wireless card had an option to log SSIDs as they were located along with their signal strength and SNR (at the time Wi-Fi was still part networking tool, part hobbyist-type thing). I had been using it with that configuration as late as 2005; the vast majority of routers that I could find on the way home from school were either "NETGEAR", "linksys", or "linksys-g". Very few of them were secured, though that seems to have changed in recent years.
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