MoD secrets put at risk

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By Andrew Gilligan, Evening Standard
30 March 2005

Serious security flaws at the Ministry of Defence, leading City firms and the office of a High Court judge are exposed by the Evening Standard today.

The organisations - along with thousands of ordinary Londoners - are broadcasting their secret information into the street via the wireless devices that are now increasingly used to link computers to a network or the internet.

Any "unencrypted" data on the wireless signal can be picked up by anyone up to 500 feet away.

In a few hours, a computer expert working with the Standard found more than 650 insecure, unscrambled wireless connections in central and north London. The Standard expert could have gained access to:

http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/17571391?source=Evening%20Standard

IS THIS also happening at the Pentagon???

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1. I'd like to be able to say

"Well, that's what happens when you hire the lowest bid on your tech support contract", but if their contract assignment procedures are anything like the US, it wasn't the lowest bid that won, but rather the one coming from a friend of Tony. Just a guess...

This is unexcusable incompetence, of course. If you can't secure your wireless network, you DON'T IMPLEMENT A WIRELESS NETWORK.