aeonsafe
9/15/2006
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Millions of homes, hotspots, and metro wireless are unsecured. It's virtually 100% of the public venue use of WiFi. Globally, billions of users are at risk.
How is this possible? How did the thousands of experts at AT&T, Cisco, IBM, Linksys, Lucent, Microsoft, Netgear, Nokia, T-Mobile, and other fine companies miss the need to secure wirless in public venues?
One friend of AeON coined the phrase “collaborative ostriching.” Have the technical experts been guilty of hiding from an obvious problem?
The WiFi Alliance issued a sorry statement "How secure you want your network to be depends on how you use the Internet." Wrong answer. It should be secure, period.
Let's get our head out of the sand and solve the problem.