Lax attitudes to wifi security? You bet, and it's not just the punters!

I found yesterday that ADSL installed by a BT engineer, for a customers brand new Sony Vaio, was configured with WEP security and a router password that would take 10 seconds to guess.

If BT still think that WEP = security, and charge innocent customers for configuring this 'security' then attitudes, nay, knowledge, of wifi security is absent way beyond the average punter.

Naturally, explaining that BT had left next to zero security, I changed the security to WPA AES and put a strong password on the router. The only thing BT did right was to leave remote router configuration off.