Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:18:41 -0700 From: "Geoffrey T. Cheshire" <gtc@cheshirelaw.com> To: "Freebsd-Mobile" <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: 802.11b security (was: Dell Inspiron 2500 and what 802.11b) Message-ID: <KEENJBIPGDFAPKAFLAOEEEBPCDAA.gtc@cheshirelaw.com> In-Reply-To: <200104301701.f3UH1nK28578@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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There was an interesting story on this the other on, of all places, Slashdot. URL is: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/27/1847237&mode=thread Basically, these guys have been driving around sniffing for wireless LAN traffick, and find a lot of unsecured major companies. Most of the useful responses agreed that, at present, 802.11b should be viewed as insecure, and treated as such on your network. That is, you should locate your wireless network outside your firewall, and treat it as you would the internet. Therefore, all traffick should assume insecure channels and ssh (whatever) across the firewall. FWIW! (I'm still chained by UTP here.) - - - Geoffrey T. Cheshire <gtc (at) cheshirelaw (dot) com> PGP IDs: 0xA898DA75, 0x7B9C0691 (office), 0x43713B0D (RSA) -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David Wolfskill Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 10:02 AM To: david@catwhisker.org; vdue@zen.tc Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 and what 802.11b [SNIP] For my home stuff, I'm using WEP (though it's weak, I fancy it may provide some deterrent), as well as restricting the AP to talking only with cards that use MAC addresses I list for it (though the MAC address can be changed at will, again, I fancy it is some deterrent), and I use SSH for any communication from the laptop to any machines where I get shell prompts. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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