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[ILUG] Re: Strange problem with WiFi cards

[ILUG] Re: Strange problem with WiFi cards

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sat Mar 26 19:56:36 GMT 2005


On Sat 26 Mar 2005 19:37, you wrote:
> > eth0      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"maths.tcd.ie"  Nickname:"martha"
...
> > eth2      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"[secret]"  Nickname:"alfred.murphy.ie"
>
> Nobody else seemed to spot this, but did you notice that the two ESSID's
> are different?

Sorry, this was just an artifact.
I noticed my ESSID was in plain text,
and reasoned that ILUG is probably full of teenage hackers,
who will sit outside my house trying to get onto my network.
I just didn't notice the ESSID appeared twice!

My ESSID is not really "secret",
and I don't have a user "guest" with password "guest" either.

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e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
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s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland



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