A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges
The author claims to be a computer security engineer, yet is deliberately setting up a tool to defeat security -- not an abstract tool, useful in surveying and thus improving your own security and incidentally capable of being used for mischief, but nothing more than a list of identifiers and passwords. The only indicator you can gain from this is that someone betrayed your trust.<p>If this profession had a board of ethics, this is the sort of thing that it would take action against.<p>If people want you to use their networks, they will offer you access via any one of several convenient mechanisms, including<p>not using encryption<p>putting a sign on the wall with a password<p>handing you a card with credentials<p>telling you a password