[buug] Regarding wireless access points

[John Levine]

You might want to look into this if you are considering buying an 
access point.  I'm certainly not an expert, though.  It's a linksys 
router running linux.

http://www.batbox.org/wrt54g-linux.html

Found from a link from slashdot.




On Friday, Sep 5, 2003, at 10:47 US/Pacific, Claude Rubinson wrote:

> 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.
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