Subject: Re: What to do? From: david nicol <whatever@davidnicol.com> Message-Id: <1042240555.1152.4.camel@chicago.davidnicol.com> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:16:20 -0600
based on the expereinces of, say, Randal Schwartz for example,
you definitely DO NOT want to introduce yourself to them by
printing a note from their printer for example.
> >The other day I was was driving somewhere in KC and
> >found 5 WLANs that I could take total control of. The
> >owner left the configurations with all the default
> >passwords... There was even one small company that had
> >a wireless print server that was vulnerable, I could
> >have used the printer if I wanted to. I also
> >downloaded their client's database (in ms access);
> >Now, my question is:
> >
> >Should I let them know their Network is vulnerable and
> >offer to tweak it for a small fee or just let them
> >find out the hard way?
> >
> >Thanks in advance for your inputs.
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