[buug] Regarding wireless access points

[Claude Rubinson]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:10:04PM -0700, Aaron T Porter wrote:
> > 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.

Ahh, of course.  Which explains Nick's comment of why this isn't my
problem.

Thanks all.  Here comes wireless access to the Univ of Arizona Soc
dept.