[buug] Regarding wireless access points
Aaron T Porter
atporter at primate.net
Thu Sep 4 22:10:04 PDT 2003
> Jerry Asher said:
>
> MAC addresses of various wireless authorized cards can be sniffed. When
> the user of such a card goes offline, the wiley h4x0r can set his wireless
> card to mimic that of the marks. And then before you can cry out Nimba,
> soon you have little blasters all over the campus network, release from
> inside the firewall.
>
> This can be filtered to some degree on various waps, but I don't think
> there is any preventable way of doing this short of setting up a full
> fledged boingo like authenticating service.
The same is true of a wired network with open physical access.
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