[thelist] Wireless security

Ken Schaefer Ken at adOpenStatic.com
Wed Sep 21 17:06:15 CDT 2005


> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-
> bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of john at johnallsopp.co.uk
> Sent: Thursday, 22 September 2005 5:23 AM
> To: Dan McCullough; thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Wireless security
> 
> > Yeah I sent up a friends wireless access point, and then secured it to
> > their MAC addresses only.  When I connected with one of their
> > computers their were at least 8 other wireless networks in the
> > neighborhood, all unsecure, 5 probably had their default password
> > still on the system.  too funny, too scary.
> 
> The MAC address thing seems to give certain security. I can't imagine
> how anyone might be able to hack past that, which makes me wonder
> about all the other things to do too. But I'm sure there's a very good
> reason, and people cleverer than I who absolutely could break through.

Just about any NIC these days allows you to set an arbitrary MAC address,
overriding the vendor supplied one. 

Cheers
Ken


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