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I’m a know-nothing-fresh out of college kid in his first week at an actual IT job. Immediately we have a security issue. My boss says that there is an unknown device attached to our wireless network (he found the suspicious device name in DNS). He had me search the parking lot for someone “hacking” from their car. I’m sweating bullets. Is this what IT is like? Hackers everywhere trying to do me harm?
My boss finds this $700 product on, I kid you not, Sharper Image, that can pinpoint where wireless clients hide. You would have sworn we were on a James Bond mission.
Long story short, the “tracking device” basically blinked random lights, and the “rogue device” was a cell phone…that belonged to my boss. I learned that common sense is about 90% of IT.
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I learned that common sense is about 90% of IT.
No. *Lack* of common sense is about 90% of IT. If it were easy, anybody could do it, and we’d all be living on welfare.
No. *Lack* of common sense is about 90% of management…
I think what Goober means is that lack of common sense provides 90% of IT work…
Dumb. You can use Open Source software and a cell phone or laptop to pinpoint the war driver. This is elementary.
I have done this before. I saw weird Hostname on company’s wireless network and tracked it down. Turns out to be one of the other IT staff’s laptops we had no documentation about.
Just block the MAC address and wait for someone to complain!