I had my wife's laptop in school with me today so i could finish installing stuff on it. Anyways, office wasn't done installing when it was time to go, so i left it on for the 20 minute ride home. I decided to see what my wireless card would pick up, the signal strength, and if anything was secured. Well, my results are as follows:
38 Total wireless networks detected.
1 with a person's last name... name was the SSID as well as painted on the mailbox as we drove by.
1 with a TELEPHONE NUMBER!!! as the ssid.
36, yes 36 SSID's either labeled "linksys", "default", or "NETGEAR".
Ok, of those 38 detected networks, one single network had WPA enabled, and one had WEP enabled... Ironically, the one with WEP was the one with the SSID matching their home phone number...
I should mention, i was able to do a reverse phone number search to find the location of the phone number ssid from using one of the many "linksys" unprotected networks.
On a final note, i have two points of interest... I have mac filtering, a hidden ssid, which is changed weekly to a new set of random letters/numbers, and wpa-psk enabled, also with the psk changing weekly with a different set of random letters/numbers, all running from a Dlink DI-624 c2. DO NOT accuse me of having an unsecure network!! The other point of interest, i was not driving. my wife was.
In summation, please secure your network, or if you do have it half secure, make sure you don't do something boneheaded like signing up at donotcall.gov, enabling wep, and making your SSID your phone number.
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