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oh i know the pain of ignorance, yesterday at work, i spent most of the day tracking down a rouge access point 'linksys', after about an hour of finding the general location so i could get a stable connection, i sweeped through the local switches for a ''linksys or sysco' max address, finding none i tried to connect to a known host to track which port the device was on, again met with failure. i eventually guessed a few passwords on the router and got it (second try actually) and was able to find it's external IP and thus track it to a port, and then to a room, they managed to change the default password, but changed it to my second guess. bassicly, it let any student on campus onto our administrative LAN.
people don't understand security, and the need to. when i find the time, I'll write up a basic home computer security thread.
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