This backs up my claim that wireless can be hacked

I think anything can be hacked. Too many geeks with too much time on their hands.

 

yep, i totally agree!! if they can't do it now, they will soon figure out a way.

 

This was in the new awhile ago...............they hacked an "open" system. The stores are just as much at fault for not securing the data. Not say the hackers were right or anything, they are wrong and need to spend time with buba.

Mark

 

Wireless encryption can be hacked, and it isn't terribly hard. There are tutorial videos on YouTube showing how to hack WEP and WPA encryption and it doesn't take much to do.

 

Especially beware of ATT wireless easiest to network to hack there is - i wont go into detail but the standard default wep key is ridiculously simple. change the default wep key its still not that difficult( I know this because i was formerly a network technician for a competitor backbone provider that shall remain nameless)

 

Not always true. They have been able to hack into systems that do have security.

 

Did somebody, somewhere claim that wireless can't be "hacked"?

As for AT&T's wireless, I'm guessing you mean the hot-spots, as you'd need some equipment that isn't cheap for the GSM side of things.

Sprint's Mobile Broadband could be hacked, but who would bother with the costs for the hardware required to do so?

If stores were really concerned with security at all, they'd be using a LICENSED band, and you wouldn't have these computer nerds sitting in a parking lot accessing their information. Most people wouldn't even KNOW they had a wireless system if it were on a licensed frequency, and those left over that did would likely be too stupid to know how to get hardware that picks up that frequency to interface with the tools they downloaded from some "hacking" website.

In the computer world, there aren't too many "hackers". Most of the "hackers" you read about are what the real hackers refer to as "script kiddies" who use tools that were designed/released by a real hacker.

 

Wirless is alot harder to hack then a land line, the tutorial you see on YouTube are basic wireless system and even at that there are several more steps to take then attempting to hack a land line. typically it can take 5 minutes or less to hack a land line with basic protection, your looking at 30-40 minutes to hack a wireless connection with the same protection as the land line had.. So, wireless does offer more protection then a land line but in noway does it mean your ever going to be 100% unhackable.

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