An interesting appearing on the Edmontonsun.com website was written by Jeremy Loome about the hacker Renderman.
However the former hacker now has a job as computer security consultant. Most of his time is spent trying to find computer access points transmitted through wireless technology. In the article it stated that almost 5,000 access points were found with, “45% (of them) have no protection at all”. Renderman felt it was easy for someone to send spam or steal credit card numbers based on these access points:
"What scares the crap out of me is the possibility of going downtown, sitting in a parkade for eight hours and having a server in the trunk, grabbing whatever connection it can, firing off a million addresses, and when it's done that, seeing what else is out there and firing off another million. The whole drive-by spamming thing is a very real possibility."
