Last week I took a little vacation from work. Checked into a nice motel. They had information in the room on how to access their wireless network. I confess I had a little problem configuring my laptop to use their wireless router. Normally I hit a few keys at boot time to choose which wireless network to connect to. This time hitting the keys did nothing.I was really surprised when my laptop was able to connect to the Internet. Then I figured out what was going on. One of the wireless networks I connect to is one with a Linksys router with the default setup. There must have been a similar setup close enough to my motel room for me to share their connection. Hey that's cool right?
Then I got to second thinking. I was about to access my company information using my secret password. And I also logged into e-mail using my password. Suppose somebody opened up a Linksys router in order to spy on unsuspecting chumps like me using their wireless access? Then I would have compromised some of my accounts and passwords. Hey. I was on vacation. I did not want to bother with figuring out why my laptop would not let me choose another wireless network. So I just logged in, did my business, and got on with my vacation. Did I make the right choice?
