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CVS Pharmacy

PostPosted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 3:45 pm
by HITMONEY
Well as my little comment under my name suggests I am a full fledged Red Bull junkie and having not had an ice cold RB in hours I stopped into my local CVS Pharmacy for a fix.

I had my iPAQ with me and for some strange reason I fired up PocketWarrior and blamo there was an active ap.

SSID= cvsretail
type= unknown
WEP= NO

This seemed strange to me as to why the SSID would be broadcast.

I went inside, got a Red Bull and when at the counter I asked the young girl if they were using wireless registers. She just stared at me with a cocked head. I just gave her the 2 bucks and left.

What gets me is that this CVS Pharmacy is on my normal route when running Ministumbler yet MS never picked this AP up, but it registers loud and clear with PW?

More investigation will need to be done as to what CVS is doing with wireless. Hopefully there is some sort of propietary security measures in place, and hopefully has nothing to do with the Pharmacy side of the biz... that could be ugly.

Re: CVS Pharmacy

PostPosted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 5:31 pm
by peekitty
Originally posted by HITMONEY This seemed strange to me as to why the SSID would be broadcast.[/B]


They may be running some hardware that doesn't work well with broadcast disabled. Or maybe they just like guests.

FWIW, I've heard from a reliable source that there's rarely any traffic, just beacon packets and no clients on the LAN.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 6:07 pm
by infosec_buda
I've got a CVS in my neck of the woods and found the same thing... I know a guy at headquarters... I'll send him an e-mail..

PostPosted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 5:21 am
by c0nv3r9
Every store has the same 'cvsretail' setup.. or at least from Northern Maine to NYC.

PostPosted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 5:26 am
by HITMONEY
Well I too talked to a reliable source, Iris :rolleyes: , and she pointed out that there was nothing but beacon traffic too.

PostPosted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 9:30 am
by CyberRodent_X
Yeah - We just started getting CVS here in Houston, TX...

Got about 4 of em in my general Travels.. all but one gets picked up by MiniStumbler as I drive by... and my setup is by no means strong - iPAQ 3765 + Sleeve + Orinoco GOLD - no ext antenna and MS....

Nothing there.. just beacon.. another one just like CVS is the HEB grocery stores.. I pick them up too, and they are all the same too - ssid = HEB1905 -- just beacons - nothing else. I have checked with them.. they are using wireless checkout registers.

When checking out a local HEB, I picked up another ssid in the strip mall parking lot... it was comming from the Cingular Wireless store... and was unlocked!

Well.. i thought it was funny... :D

CR-X

PostPosted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 11:46 am
by SKPhoton
yep, i'm in roswell, GA and there's a CVS w/ ssid = cvsretail and no WEP. strange.

PostPosted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 12:06 pm
by chuck2
yeah cvs, home depot, wawa: all seems the same probably just for inventory.

PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 5:33 pm
by OpelBlitz
Originally posted by chuck2
yeah cvs, home depot, wawa: all seems the same probably just for inventory.


Home Depot uses the wireless for just inventory from what I have experienced. They have some nice barcode scanners.

Hmm

PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 7:06 pm
by mbstone99
There is a CVS here. I drove around it today but didn't get anything. I am going to have to try it when the store is open and see if I can get it.

Matt

PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 7:28 pm
by HITMONEY
My ministumbler rig doesnt pick it up. I picked it up with PocketWarrior and airmagent also picks it up.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:07 am
by infosec_buda
Got the official word - the WLANs only carries 'pricing information' on it. Not used for checkouts, registers, etc.. However, they are going through a conversion to enable WEP. Although I can't confirm, I'd bet they are going to start rolling out other wireless apps.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:48 am
by HITMONEY
Thanks buda,

I will be watching mine closely.

I would hope that if they are going to use
AP's for anything more than they are now,
that they use something more than WEP to
protect it.

i worked there years ago...

PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 6:02 pm
by dtoff
i worked there years ago and they use handheld scaners (http://www.symbol.com) to check inventory and prices, they scan the bar codes on the shelf, count the items and makes sure it matches the stock they are suposed to have and that the price is correct.

i bet thats what its for.

Re: CVS Pharmacy

PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 8:13 pm
by Tedward
SSID= cvsretail
type= unknown
WEP= NO


I find these all over northern NC and southern VA, same deal!

TW