SMB Nation - Day 0

So I made it to Redmond near dinner and enjoyed walking around Redmond Town Centre. What a kewl place. Lots of good stores, some great food and interesting people.

When I was done my 'walk about' I headed to the Marriot's bar, drank some great gwertztraminer (although insanely expensive) and caught up on some reading on 19 Deadly Sins of Software Security. Sometime around 10 I switched to beer and shortly after met up with Susan who had got in later in the evening. She ran around and introduced me to some great SBSers, and then I headed to bed.

When I got to my room I thought about jacking into the wireless. At one point I thought I might just attach onto 'The Diva Network', but they didn't set it up yet. I started to think about paying for hotel access, and then noticed that the access point was actually IN MY ROOM. Note to whomever runs the hotel net.... NEVER PUT THE COMPELTE IP information on the bloody device, and leave a management port open. Worse yet, don't leave a cross over cable to plug in with, hanging in the closet! :)

Then my ethics kicked in. I decided to play nice and not use that information to manually plug in and get a working MAC addr to use. In case you don't know... it IS quite easy to sniff a wireless net, get a working MAC addr and reprogram yours so you can get access to the net. Alas, I won't explain anything more past that. However, I will say having access to the access point like this is not always a good idea.

I think I will head to bed and get up early for the conference tomorrow (erhh... today).