What to do?

[Brad Crotchett]

I would leave it be.  In a perfect world you would be a good samaritan, but it 
obviously is not perfect.  If you had only found the network and not downloaded
anything it might be different.  The IT person has to take some responsibility.
If their network is that wide open then they must not care much about security.  
Even laymen have heard by now the security issues with wireless, and I am sure
the instructions with the AP had more than enough warnings about WEP and the
default password, etc.  

I would definitely leave it alone.

My 2 cents,

Brad
 
> Hello:
> 
> The other day I was war driving somewhere in KC and
> found 5 WLANs that I could take total control of. The
> owner left the configurations with all the default
> passwords... There was even one small company that had
> a wireless print server that was vulnerable, I could
> have used the printer if I wanted to. I also
> downloaded their client's database (in ms access); 
> Now, my question is: 
> 
> Should I let them know their Network is vulnerable and
> offer to tweak it for a small fee or just let them
> find out the hard way?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your inputs.
> 
> 
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