Maximum Wireless Security

Introduction

“Friday night is “make-it”. After the meeting we slip away into the darkness, the cold night flogging us with a primal urgency. Tonight we hack Dallas.

Crouched in a tricked-out SUV—ebony with tinted windows—the bizarre array of protruding antennas makes us a giant insect. We crawl along the Richardson Telecom Corridor, our faces deathly pallid in the glow of a laptop. It starts immediately, the walls of network security melting around us like ice. Within moments, the largest networks fly open. Nortel—28 access points—all wide open. Driving a little farther, our antenna starts to hum. Fujitsu, Ericsson, Alcatel…hundreds of unsecured portals streaming down our laptop in a torrent. A few are encrypted, albeit weakly, but most are ...