wireless networking at hotels

[Jack Morgan]

jay <jay at musubi.org> wrote:

: anyone see this?

: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/May/21/bz/bz01a.html

: it's an article about the halekulani and "major hotels in hawaii"
: offering wireless ethernet.

: does anyone know what kind of security precautions they've been
: taking?  have they done any security audits? or do they make you
: sign a disclaimer?  i'd have though the potential liability with all
: the business travelers they have would've been enough to scare them
: away until a more secure protocol came out.  imagine backdooring
: one of the ADB delegate's laptops.

I don't think a wireless card can open up an OS to backdoor hacks, although it does give more time to
the hacker to try to get in, but you can do that to any computer connected to the net.  The most
someone could do is pickup plain text passwords, and only if you can actually hear the client, as most
of the time you can only pickup up what the server is sending unless your setup in a location to pickup
both sides of the wireless conversation.