Hospital resorts to Wi-Fi squatting

IT security is so strict at this hospital that some doctors resort to using a neighboring house’s Wi-Fi to get on the internet:

This Blog recently talked to an information-technology director at a mid-size hospital who says that visitors, doctors, and even the IT department routinely log on to “Monkey Business,” the unsecured wireless network in the house behind the hospital. The hospital’s network only allows registered computers to connect to it, and for some reason it won’t let people access the hospital’s VPN. So anyone using their home laptop or a guest who needs to make a presentation just uses the neighbor’s network.

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