Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:48:04 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:09.signal Message-ID: <200308131848.04819.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <44wudhbeya.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030811133518.66226B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <200308121910.59445.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> <44wudhbeya.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Wednesday 13 August 2003 01:16 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > However, WEP and IPSec are not quite as interchangeable as David > Kelly makes them sound. Even without access to the outside world, > intruders could make themselves a nuisance. A DOS nuisance, yes. Without IPSec they can occupy the same frequency but they will not talk to any hosts or over any wires I have control over. IPSec should be built into wireless access points if the manufacturers of wireless equipment actually cared about security. Lacking that, I'll have to make my own access points out of FreeBSD systems. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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