Journal #14, November 30

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/1208/052.html?feed=rss_news

Most of the airport's wireless internet is unsecured. This is mostly not a big deal. If it cost over 20 thousand dollars to secure an airport I really don't think that the investment will be made by airports. They have other things they have to spend their money on, even though they do charge an arm and a leg for anything you buy. This is a good article that explains all the problems that airports are facing. They are stuck because they need wireless internet so they can run their business, but they don't want to secure it because it cost so much money. Now they might get hacked into and all sorts of information goodies could be taken. Seems like some sort of pickle. What would you do if you were the CEO of an airport. You either have to cut some spending on salaries or risk getting all your employees information stolen, and then you could be sued for who knows how much.

This is a great article. It seems like something you would find in "Ethics for the Information Age". I can already see the question "Is it wrong for David King to send hackers out for unsolicited security assessments?" Well my answer would be no. This seems like something that will help out airports. In the end David is just trying to make money by getting airports to buy his security. The byproduct of this, which turns the economy, is having the airports not waste their money, but protect themselves, and spend money. This will protect the people who work at the airport, and the customers, basically a win win unless you are the CEO of the airport.

You can't say that it's up to customers and employees to protect themselves, because most customers and employees expect that their e-mails sent at a wireless access point to be secure. If they get their information stolen, and find how it was because of the wireless security at an airport, I guarantee there will be a court date between customer and airport.

http://video.forbes.com/fvn/tech/tb_airhack111908