Peter Lascelles

Norfolk

Director

Its true, wireless access points can offer a back door into an otherwise well protected network. I expect most good IT managers are on the case though.

I guess the other aspect that relates more to public hot spots is to educate users in the protection of their own laptops. As we all know when you join a public wireless network anything on your machine that is shared becomes accessible to anyone that wants it.

Spread sheets, letters, accounts and so on all available for the entire world to see. As wireless hotspots become more common I suppose some user education is in order.