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>>>>> "Dmitri" == Dmitri Nikulin <dnikulin@optusnet.com.au> writes:
    Dmitri> Good thing I decided to just do away with WEP: extra
    Dmitri> administration and processing overhead (IPW 2200BG has
    Dmitri> software WEP) for chewing-gum security. It should be illegal
    Dmitri> to continue calling it 'wired equivalent' and especially
    Dmitri> advertising it as security. From what I hear everyone and
    Dmitri> their dog can bring a sufficiently powerful laptop and
    Dmitri> subvert arbitrary WEP networks just off battery power - but
    Dmitri> I hope it's not that severe.

  Breaking the WEP might get you into the network, but far easier is
to just put up a fake network with the same ESSID.  That's the real
sadness of wireless "security" --- it fails to deal with attacks on
the infrastructure itself.

- -- 
] Michael Richardson          Xelerance Corporation, Ottawa, ON |  firewalls  [
] mcr @ xelerance.com           Now doing IPsec training, see   |net architect[
] http://www.sandelman.ca/mcr/    www.xelerance.com/training/   |device driver[
] panic("Just another Debian GNU/Linux using, kernel hacking, security guy"); [



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