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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (20145)	3/9/2002 8:03:00 AM
From: Dennis Roth	Respond to of 196652

Mobile phone imports rush into China digitimes.com Compiled from outside sources by Lisa Tsai, Research Center;According to the People's Daily, China imported 219,000 mobile phones through Guangdong Province in January, double the year-earlier figure. The value of the imports also doubled, to US$30 million or about the same as the value for all of 1999. The lowering of import tariffs for mobile phones on January 1, 2002 has set off rapid growth. Most of the imported phones were manufactured in South Korea and Taiwan, with 172,000 and 47,000 units, respectively. However, production volume in China far outnumbers these figures, and lower tariffs for key components will make it even cheaper to make mobile phones domestically.

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (20145)	3/12/2002 10:54:55 AM
From: Dennis Roth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196652

OT: Wireless trap is still snaring business by Simon Moores Wednesday 13 March 2002 cw360.com Today, I joined Sky News, a laptop and an empty Pringles can on a tour of London's Square Mile. The mission, to eavesdrop on wireless networks and identify those that had failed to put in place even the most rudimentary protection against any passer-by "dropping-in" to the network. Just about every computer publication has warned against the flakiness of the wireless world, wide open as it is to hacker-friendly products such as AirSnort. Wireless LAN (802.11) technology is increasingly attractive to business. I even have a Cisco Aeronet at home. It's wonderful, has no cables and I can browse the Web and collect my mail from anywhere in the house or garden. Trouble is, you might ask, have I protected myself by enabling the security? Probably not, I am after all at home and surely, wireless stays within the boundaries of my property? Of course it doesn't you'll tell me and the same applies to the 50 or so Wireless LANs that were picked up during the filming of the Sky News piece. More than 60% of the networks detected were completely unprotected - not using Wired Equivalent Protocol encryption or indeed any type of encryption - they were simply wide open. In principle this allows anyone to piggy-back on the network for a free ride or worse, collect the traffic flowing back and forth along the network without anyone being the wiser. It strikes me from looking at the statistics from today's small trawling exercise that far too many network administrators are taking stupid pills. After all that's happened in the last 12 months and the increasingly pervasive atmosphere of security that surrounds us, why on earth aren't they taking the simplest steps to protect their businesses? I vaguely remember telling my small daughter a bedtime story, probably Winnie the Pooh, which featured an "Idiot Trap". "What's an idiot trap?" she asked. "Something to do with Rabbit, a Pringles can and wireless networks", should have been my reply. By the way, the Pringles can acts as a natural collector of wireless LAN signals. Cheese and onion works best! Simon Moores column also appears on www.zentelligence.co.uk