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Palo Alto schools seek to secure wireless net - Ron Harris, ASSOCIATED PRESS

When the Palo Alto Unified School District decided to go high-tech and install wireless computer connections throughout its offices and on some campuses, it obviously had not gambled on security becoming an issue. Armed merely with a laptop and a wireless connection card, a reporter for the Palo Alto Weekly succeeded last week in exploiting the school district's insecure network setup, obtaining some students' grades, home phone numbers, addresses, medical information, psychological evaluations and even full-color photos of the children.

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