Fox news ran this story on August 8th, 2008 on how a company uses the iPhone to hack into corporate networks.

The company mails the phone in a package with a long-life battery where it sits in the mail room and eventually gets returned. While in the company premises it scans all available wireless networks for vulnerabilities. Although it may stay in the mail room for several days they say it only needs a few minutes to gather all the information needed for them to further break into that company.

You can read the article here, and we’ve included the full text below in case Fox news decides to take it off of their site:

LAS VEGAS — Want to break into the computer network in an ultra-secure building? Ship a hacked iPhone there to a nonexistent employee and hope the device sits in the mailroom, scanning for nearby wireless connections.

How about stealing someone’s computer passwords? Forget trying to fool the person into downloading a malicious program that logs keystrokes. A tiny microphone hidden near the keyboard could do the same thing, since each keystroke emits slightly different sounds that can be used to reconstruct the words the target is typing.

Hackers at the DefCon conference here were demonstrating these and other novel techniques for infiltrating facilities Friday.

Their talks served as a reminder of the danger of physical attacks as a way to breach hard-to-crack computer networks. It’s an area once defined by Dumpster diving and crude social-engineering ruses, like phony phone calls, that are probably easier to detect or avoid.

As technology gets cheaper and more powerful, from cell phones that act as personal computers to minuscule digital bugging devices, it’s enabling a new wave of clever attacks that, if pulled off properly, can be as effective and less risky for thieves than traditional computer-intrusion tactics.

Consider Apple Inc.’s iPhone, a gadget whose processing horsepower and cellular and wireless Internet connections make it an ideal double agent.

Robert Graham and David Maynor, co-founders of Atlanta-based Errata Security, showed off an experiment in which they modified an iPhone and sent it to a client company that wanted to test the security of its internal wireless network.

Graham and Maynor programmed the phone to check in with their computers over the cellular network. Once inside the target company and connected, a program they had written scanned the wireless network for security holes.

They didn’t find any, but the exercise demonstrated an inexpensive way to perform penetration testing and the danger of unexpected devices being used in attacks. If they had found an unsecured router in their canvassing, they likely would have been able to waltz inside the corporate network to steal data.

To keep the phone running, the researchers latched on an extended-life battery that lasts days on end. But they only really need a few minutes inside a building to test the network’s security.

“It’s like saying, once you get into Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, and you’re in the garden where everything’s edible, you have it all,” Graham said in an interview.

The attack won’t work, of course, if a company’s wireless network is properly secured. In that case, Graham and Maynor said there’s likely no big loss: the package that had been sitting in the mailroom would probably be mailed back to them so they could try it again elsewhere.

Another talk focused on new twists to Cold War-era espionage tactics that could allow criminals to sidestep the locks on computer networks.

Eric Schmiedl, a lock-picking expert and undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, outlined several surveillance methods long used by government intelligence agents that have become more accessible to garden-variety criminals because of the falling price of the technologies.

For example, Schmiedl said even low-budget criminals now have a way to eavesdrop on conversations through a window. It involves bouncing a beam from a laser pointer off the glass and through a light sensor and audio amplifier.

If the people inside the room are close enough to the window, their conversation creates vibrations that the equipment can translate into a crude reconstruction of the conversation, Schmiedl said.

“We’re burning the candle at both ends,” he said. “The technology is becoming easier and cheaper and anybody can do it. And at the same time there’s more incentive now to do it. These are two trains on a collision course. The question is when they’re going to collide.”

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We list all the advantages that being an affiliate of Wifi Security Guy’s Identity Theft brings you, from the most simple to the most compelling. We start with you getting your Identity Theft protection for free, and end up with you having a monthly income that constantly grows.

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The number ‘3′ is a magic marketing number. All the big marketing companies know it, they just don’t use it. I learned it from the MLM gurus when I was writing their online commission systems, but it puzzled me as to why they didn’t use the very advice they were giving me.

Here’s how 3 is powerful: Everyone, no matter who they are, can get 3 people they know from their friends or relatives to purchase any product, no matter what it is, period. It doesn’t matter if you get involved in a book-of-the-month club, a vitamins-by-mail MLM, water that has special minerals, or a cell phone service.

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Wifi Security Guy knows if you’re going to be successful as an affiliate the first goal you have is getting your own Identity Theft protection for free, so we setup all of our commission system based off of that number.

For every friend you refer to Wifi Security Guy’s Identity Theft protection that signs up, you get $5 credit, every single month their account is active. There are a couple important things to pick up from that:

• It only takes 3 referrals to get your Identity Theft protection for free.
• Your income will grow every month because the members that you refer are charged every month and you’re paid on them every month.

2. Your Income Can Only Grow.

Every month the members you referred to the Identity Theft protection are charged for that month’s service and you are paid $5. If you have 20 referrals this month your income will be $100 this month, and it will be $100 next month even if you quit referring people to the Identity Theft protection.

What happens if you don’t quit referring people to the Identity Theft protection? Your income will grow larger every month.

I’m not a marketing guy by any stretch of the imagination. I’ve been in MLMs before and I always flunked-out - I’m just not geared for sales. And when those MLMs set the bar up high where I had to find 10 or more people that would buy their product I would always fail because I’m not a marketer. Another thing that was wrong with those systems is their whole marketing approach was off-line. They didn’t have a good system for recruiting people online, which is where I spend most of my time. It’s certainly easier for me to send off a handful of emails every month that it is to talk face-to-face with people (you may be a face-to-face kind of person - that’s great!).

Since I’m not really a great marketing guy I’d like to use low numbers to show you how your income can grow slowly but I’ll bet for anyone out there reading this you’ll know you can certainly do better than this. How do I know? Because I’m doing better than this with the system that’s in place with Wifi Security Guy and if I as a non-marketing guy can do better than this I know you can.

In our first example, let’s just say you can get 5 people every month that signs up for the Identity Theft protection. In your first month you’ll make $25, and your income will grow by $25 every month. Here’s what it looks like over the first year:

Month 1:

We list all the advantages that being an affiliate of Wifi Security Guy’s Identity Theft brings you, from the most simple to the most compelling. We start with you getting your Identity Theft protection for free, and end up with you having a monthly income that constantly grows.

1. Your Security Is Free When You Send 3.

The number ‘3′ is a magic marketing number. All the big marketing companies know it, they just don’t use it. I learned it from the MLM gurus when I was writing their online commission systems, but it puzzled me as to why they didn’t use the very advice they were giving me.

Here’s how 3 is powerful: Everyone, no matter who they are, can get 3 people they know from their friends or relatives to purchase any product, no matter what it is, period. It doesn’t matter if you get involved in a book-of-the-month club, a vitamins-by-mail MLM, water that has special minerals, or a cell phone service.

I would think with the big marketing companies knowing this they would change their marketing goals. Instead of making their members recruit 10 - 20 people to the product before they can get their own product for free, they should set it up so you only have to find 3 people and yours is free.

Wifi Security Guy knows if you’re going to be successful as an affiliate the first goal you have is getting your own Identity Theft protection for free, so we setup all of our commission system based off of that number.

For every friend you refer to Wifi Security Guy’s Identity Theft protection that signs up, you get $5 credit, every single month their account is active. There are a couple important things to pick up from that:

• It only takes 3 referrals to get your Identity Theft protection for free.
• Your income will grow every month because the members that you refer are charged every month and you’re paid on them every month.

2. Your Income Can Only Grow.

Every month the members you referred to the Identity Theft protection are charged for that month’s service and you are paid $5. If you have 20 referrals this month your income will be $100 this month, and it will be $100 next month even if you quit referring people to the Identity Theft protection.

What happens if you don’t quit referring people to the Identity Theft protection? Your income will grow larger every month.

I’m not a marketing guy by any stretch of the imagination. I’ve been in MLMs before and I always flunked-out - I’m just not geared for sales. And when those MLMs set the bar up high where I had to find 10 or more people that would buy their product I would always fail because I’m not a marketer. Another thing that was wrong with those systems is their whole marketing approach was off-line. They didn’t have a good system for recruiting people online, which is where I spend most of my time. It’s certainly easier for me to send off a handful of emails every month that it is to talk face-to-face with people (you may be a face-to-face kind of person - that’s great!).

Since I’m not really a great marketing guy I’d like to use low numbers to show you how your income can grow slowly but I’ll bet for anyone out there reading this you’ll know you can certainly do better than this. How do I know? Because I’m doing better than this with the system that’s in place with Wifi Security Guy and if I as a non-marketing guy can do better than this I know you can.

In our first example, let’s just say you can get 5 people every month that signs up for the Identity Theft protection. In your first month you’ll make $25, and your income will grow by $25 every month. Here’s what it looks like over the first year:

Month 1:

The first radio ad blew my site through the roof (take the most traffic the site had ever seen on any given day and double it…)

Here’s the second radio ad, be sure to comment below and tell me what you think:

Anyone care to type it out for me?

Whether you’re an old affiliate or just started, this document is the starting point for any action you’ll take as an affiliate.

1. First Things First

If you’re just starting, take the following two actions:

1. Bookmark this page. Anytime you’re wondering what to do next or looking for new afilate ideas, remember, this page is your road map. It will have all the instructions necessary for you to become a successful affiliate.
2. Subscribe to this article. Scroll down to the bottom of this page and click “subscribe” and fill out your information. That will keep you notified of any updates or changes that are made to this page. This is important because as we get feedback from affiliates on what works well and what under-performs we will be passing that information on to you right here on this page. We want you to succeed so we’re always going to keep you informed.
3. Memorize your affiliate number. Your affiliate number is how the site knows who you send to it as compared to anyone else that just happens to come to the site. If you send someone to the site without your affiliate number and they sign up there’s no way for us to know you sent them. When you login to the affiliate area take note of the URL in the top right box labeled “Standard Linking Code”. Notice it’s the full website name (www.WifiSecurityGuy.com) with your affiliate number and “.html” added to the end. If you send that URL to people in an email and they click it the system knows you sent them and credits you for the sale when they sign up - and you get credited every month thereafter.

Now that you’ve got that out of the way, follow the rest of this page basically from top to bottom. The steps listed at the top are important learning steps for you to do first. They’ll teach you the basics of using the affiliate program and lay a foundation for more advanced things as you go along.

2. Overall Strategy.

There are two main ways you can build your list of accounts that pay you ever month. The first is by starting with inviting people you know to the website using special URLs you will create (more on that in a minute). The second is by increasing that list of people you know. The second way is the advanced way, but don’t let it scare you. Once you go through some of the simple strategies with the people you already know you’ll see how easy the second way really is. And don’t think you have to be super computer-literate to do it. Anyone with a basic knowledge of computers and the Internet can do everything listed here.

3. Make Your List.

We have to start with making a list of prospective people to send to the site. Your email address book is a good place to start. I have well over 2,000 email addresses in my address book. I got them all by never deleting any addresses, no matter how “unimportant” they were. In marketing it all comes down to numbers. The more contacts you have the greater the chances of your success. Don’t worry if you have a small address book (I admit mine is huge compared to most people’s), we have ways of expanding your list. But the first thing you have to do is create a list of people you’re going to email. As you meet more people in life, business, through friendship, etc, remember to get their email address and add them to the list. This list is going to be the key to your affiliate success.

You may want to save this list in a separate document, like by copying all the emails out to a word or text document, but this isn’t necessary. The bottom line is you need to have these addresses in one place that’s easy for you to manage. If you use your address book you may be able to sort your addresses by category, or by adding the addresses to a special “new” address book you can create, or by even creating an address “list” in your address book.

Another way to track your list is to create your own mailing list. I’m not going to spend a lot of time on mailing lists here, here’s a brief overview. A mailing list is something that “lives” on a mail server. It has a list of all of the email addresses “subscribed” to that list. Whenever you send an email to that mailing list, the server in turn copies that email out to every address in the list. If people no longer want to receive email from you, or the server has problems delivering email to certain addresses, it automatically “cleans” the list by taking those addresses off of the list. As you meet new people you go to the server and add those emails to the list and the next time you send out an email the new people will automatically receive it. It’s a simple way to track all of your email addresses, and it keeps you from having to send out hundreds of emails to all your contacts, you just send out one email to the email list address and it does all the rest. If you’re interested in your own mailing list, use the contact form and let me know so we can help you get that setup.

4. What To Email.

One thing I’ve learned in today’s fast-paced and interruption-filled world is people can’t take long advertisements. And most people will be turned off by an advertisement right away.

The best way to get people to purchase any service or product is by warming them up to it in small pieces. For example, let’s say you have a 10-minute long “ad” for a service. You can’t send that entire “ad” to them all at one time. Most people will read the first paragraph or so, realize it’s really long and they don’t have time for it now so they stop right there. Since you sent them the entire ad already you would be shooting yourself in the foot by sending the entire ad all over again. As soon as they see it’s the same ad they quit reading again. Eventually they just ignore your emails altogether.

A better approach would be to break that 10 minute ad into 20 small 30-second chunks. There are several reasons for this. The first is they don’t get the feeling they are being sold something. A small chunk can be made to look “informative” not “intrusive”. Notice by sending the long 10-minute ad above they gave it 30 seconds or so and then diverted their attention to something else. Well by sending them only 30 seconds your email probably wont be interrupted. They see the small email, it plants an idea in their mind, and they move on.

Another advantage is if they ignore one or two emails (or don’t have time to read them) they won’t miss much. If they only catch 8 minutes of your total 10 minutes of small ads they will still get enough information for them to make an informed decision about the product or service you are bringing to their attention.

The best things to put in an email are a couple sentences encouraging them to look at this article, listen to this audio, or watch this video, and a link to that content. And always ask them for their feedback or ideas. If you can get them into a conversation you’re well on your way to selling them.

Here’s an email I used to let people know about the first radio ad:

Hello everyone.

Just dropping you a quick note. You’ve probably already heard about this radio ad, but just in case you’ve missed it I wanted to make sure you get it. You can listen to the ad on this page:

link to the radio ad

And of course for more information, go here:

link to the home page

You can personalize that by putting in their first name instead of “everyone”. Notice how short it is, and how it assumes they may have already heard about it - that gives the impression that there’s a “buzz” about the ad already (and there was - putting that radio ad up on the website doubled the website activity in just one day).

Sending the user to the site is very important. The site “sells” the product for you. If they get curious they will look around and learn more about the service. If you had the radio ad in the email you send them there’s very little chance they’ll go to the site.

5. How To Create A URL.

Don’t just copy and paste URLs from the site to your email list. It’s great that you’re going to send them to the site, but unless you send them using special URLs you wont get the credit for signing them up. And with all the advertising that’s going on, and all the other affiliates already promoting the service it would be impossible for us to know you sent them to the site and not someone else, or that they didn’t hear or see a radio/TV/newspaper ad and come on their own.

So, you need to create your own special links to send them. When they come to the site using your special links the site does two things to remember them as having come from you: (1) it sets a cookie on their computer and (2) it records their IP address just in case their browser doesn’t save cookies. When they sign up for the service the site will remember them by either their cookie or their IP address (or both) and give you the credit.

Now that you know the importance of creating your own links to send in emails, you can read this step-by-step article on how to create a link to any page on the site: Creating Your Own URLs. The page even gives a sample email you would send out.

6. How Frequently To Email.

Just like sending a full 10-minute ad in one email would be over-kill, sending too many emails close together will have the same effect.

You should send one email to your list once a week. If you email more frequently you run the risk of people getting irritated by your emails, if you email less frequently you run the risk of people forgetting what you sent them last time. You want the emails to “chain” together into one “long ad” over a period of time until they realize they need to buy.

Marketing research has found that it can take up to 17 exposures to a product before people make a choice to buy. Something like the first 7-11 times a person hears a regular ad, it doesn’t even register in their mind. So be patient and just consistently send an email on a regular basis.

7. You Got A Sale!

Once they come and buy take them off your list and start a second list: “convert to affiliate”. Now that they are using the service you want to get them to recommend the service to their friends. You’ll make $1.50 for each of those recommendations, and $1 for everyone their friends recommend. The incentive for them is if they just get 3 to sign up, their service is free.

Now you work the “convert to affiliate” list of emails the same way you did your prospect list. Send an email every week with a link to another affiliate-type page (not this one). They don’t need to know what to do after they are an affiliate until after they become an affiliate. Create links to the affiliate information pages that explain how they can (a) get a free account and (b) make money, as well as the different affiliate testimonial pages as they get added.

8. Coming Soon…

• How to operate your own mailing list.
• Getting large numbers of emails for your mailing list dirt-cheap.
• Creating your own website to promote Wifi Security Guy - why you need it to become a super affiliate and how easy it is to do.
• Tips and tricks from the most successful affiliates.

Whether you’re an old affiliate or just started, this document is the starting point for any action you’ll take as an affiliate.

1. First Things First

If you’re just starting, take the following actions:

1. Bookmark this page. Anytime you’re wondering what to do next, remember, this page is your roadmap. It will have all the instructions necessary for you to become a successful affiliate

start at the top and work your way down as you gain more experience with the affiliate system. And remember, any time you’re wondering what to do next, come back to this page

Ready to get your free account and make an income that grows from one month to the next with every friend you refer to our Security Service? This How-to shows you step-by-step how to get started.

1. Go to the Affiliate Signup Page.

2. Fill in the form. If you like being paid quick, select to be paid by Paypal. With Paypal we can instantly transfer your money into your Paypal account. With Paypal you can even have a Debit card that works just like a Mastercard to pay bills, go shopping, whatever you want to do. And if you make a purchase using the Debit card for more than what you have on the card it will just pull the remaining amount from your bank account - It completely replaces the debit card you have been using with your bank. All this with no fees! Click here to learn more about Paypal’s Debit card program. We don’t make any money by you using a Paypal account to receive payment, we just recommend it because of the speed of getting your money into your hands.

If you chose, we can mail you a paper check, but be prepared to wait on the mail, and then wait while your bank clears the funds into your account.

3. Now that you have your affiliate account, start promoting yourself by following the steps in the Affiliate Action List!

You’ve seen in your affiliate back-office the main link in the top right corner that you can use to send anyone to the main page of the site and you get credited with the referral. How would you like to send people to any page on the site and still get the credit? This how-to will show you how.

First, navigate to the page you want to send people to and copy the URL, we’ll use the radio-ad #1 in this example:

Then login to your affiliate back-office and click “Build & Track Your Own Links”:

That brings you to this form:

Paste the URL into the field labeled “Define Your Own“, give the URL a name that will mean something to you in the “Tracking Keyword” field, (I put “radio”), and click “Create New Link“.

The new link will appear with some statistics (more on that in a second):

You can now copy and paste that link in an email, or use it as the URL in an ad you create. Whenever people go to that link they are “marked” as an account for you. If they sign up you’ll get the monthly commission! The cool thing is they are sent to the page you browsed to, so you can now send anyone to any page on the site by creating a special URL for that page.

Now, a little on those other fields there:

• Unique Hits - number of different people who have clicked on that URL. If you send it to 50 people in an email this will tell you the number of people who clicked on it from that email.
• Sales - the number of people who came in through that link and then purchased the service. This could even be that they come to the site on this link this month and sign up next month, so don’t get discouraged if they don’t immediately purchase!
• Conversion Rate - the number of people that purchase compared to the number that came to the site on that URL. The higher this number is, the more successful that page is at converting people into paying customers.

Now to email it out, remember, don’t make a real long-winded email. You’re not trying to sell them the whole ball of wax in one email, just a short email with the link to get them interested. It may take several emails before they decide to purchase. If you spread them out about once a week or so you’ll be doing good.

Here’s an example email of the radio link:

Hello everyone.

Just dropping you a quick note. You’ve probably already heard about this radio ad, but just in case you’ve missed it I wanted to make sure you get it. You can listen to the ad on this page:

<put the radio link you create here>

And of course for more information, go here:

<put your main link that’s in the top-right of your affiliate back-office here>

Here’s the radio ad everyone’s talking about:

Here’s the ad in text form:

YOU JUST SENT E-MAIL, BROWSED THE WEB AND DID SOME SHOPPING. A TYPICAL DAY ON YOUR P-C, RIGHT? YOU MAY ALSO HAVE JUST BEEN THE VICTIM, OF CYBER THEFT! HACKERS CAN NOW DOWNLOAD FREE SOFTWARE ENABLING THEM TO ACCESS YOUR SECRET PASSWORDS FOR ONLINE SHOPPING AND SUCH THINGS AND BEFORE YOU REALIZE IT, AND CAN DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT, THEY’VE GONE ON THE BIGGEST SHOPPING SPREE EVER WITHOUT GETTING CAUGHT…AND ALL THE SOFTWARE PROTECTION YOU’VE INSTALLED ON YOUR COMPUTER….IS USELESS. BECAUSE FIREWALL AND VIRUS SOFTWARE ONLY OFFER INTERNAL PROTECTION. THEY DON’T PROTECT INFORMATION GOING OUT OF YOUR COMPUTER. THERE IS SOMEONE, THOUGH, WHO CAN HELP! THE WI-FI SECURITY GUY! HE CAN PROTECT YOUR COMPUTER WITH THE SAME SECURITY MEASURES USED BY BANKS AND OUR MILITARY AND IT ONLY COSTS 50-CENTS A DAY. ISN’T PROTECTING YOUR IDENTITY WORTH THAT MUCH? LEARN MORE AT WI-FI SECURITY GUY DOT COM. W-I-F-I SECURITY GUY DOT COM.