On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 15:08 -0500, Adam Maloney wrote: > >> I'm also absolutely thrilled to see that Linksys is still shipping >> wireless routers with the wireless on and wide-open by default. > > As opposed to a default encryption key that makes everyone feel safe. The issue of knowingly shipping products with a default insecure configuration has been hashed to death on many lists, but you must have missed them all. I'll bring you up to speed... Why not ship it with wireless disabled, so at least it's not a gaping security hole the minute it's plugged in?