[ale] About Wireless Connectivity

[Bob Toxen]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:33:27PM -0500, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:

> The comments about securing wireless lans leave me glad that I've decided 
> to _not_ utilize the technology and stick with physical wireing. I don't 
> want to work with another layer of complexity.

> However, it also begs the question of "How open are most wireless 
> systems?", or perhaps better stated "How clueless are most network 
> admins?" A friend in security has indicated some real horror stories, but 
> has anybody actually surveyed a major city with the idea of quantifying 
> the situation?

About half of SysAdmins don't even enable WEP.

Btw, WEP is close to worthless for security.  Turning off broadcasting
and using MAC filtering are very close to worthless.  Don't use it unless
you use a good VPN strategy!

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