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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:23:16 EST5EDT4,M4.1,M10.5
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From:  Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [OS2Wireless] WSF-1 rf detector

Charles McCallister wrote:

>Lewis, 
>
>Just saw your post re: stepping in a door if left unlocked. Here, here! 
>
>Our concerns seem so blase anymore. It's at a breakneck speed that we're 
>losing our privacy anymore and it makes me wonder how those billions of 
>Chinese survive in their crowded conditions. Even there a door unlocked is 
>more likely not to be transgressed than here, more of an honor thing, but 
>anymore can we really expect that kind of chivalry in America? 
>
Sadly, my friend, I think those days may be gone for good over here. In 
our accounting practice, we have to remind people tima and time again 
that they are not required by any law to divulge their Social Security 
numbers to any non-governmental agency (bad enough to governmental 
ones!). They may be asked for their numbers, but so many of them just 
don't say, "no." Another example of letting the privacy slip, and then 
it's such a slippery slope. People still print their Social Security 
numbers on their checks! Luckily, in New York, our driver's licenses do 
not have our SS #'s on them. In Virginia, my brother had to actually 
fill out a special form at DMV so as to get a non-SS # on his license. 
And of course, the people on the other side of the counter look at us 
with such disbelief...

>Anyway, that's why I'm so concerned about the security of my network.
>
And rightfully so!

> We
>being  the 4th largest city in America - let's see, how large is New York
><g> 
>
At the beginning of "Welcome Back, Kotter," they zoom in on a sign which 
says, "Welcome to Brooklyn - the Fourth Largest City in the US." (Of 
course Brooklyn is only a borogh of New York City...)

>- with  more of a residential bent, there seems to be greater
>opportunity for a cruiser  w/ a laptop and rf sniffing software to happen
>upon my network. Funny thing,  after our DA last year filed felony charges
>against a local geek that was  sniffing out the County Clerk's LAN
>
What was the outcome? Did the case actually go to trial? (See how we can 
swing things back on topic so quickly? ;-)  )

>, these
>behaviors seem to have gone  underground. There are no longer any signals
>downtown except around the  outskirts. Maybe people truly have become more
>security conscious. I hope so. 
>  
>
As do I.

-- 
Lewis
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