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Peddling Snake Oil as Security
Richard Forno, 2002-04-17

Wireless security vendors are trying to create a market where none exists. As always, the key to better wireless security is better practice, not new products.

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Peddling Snake Oil as Security 2002-04-17
Nicholas Weaver (1 replies)
Peddling Snake Oil as Security 2002-04-19
Anonymous
Peddling Snake Oil as Security 2002-04-17
M@SomeBigTelecom
Peddling Snake Oil as Security 2002-04-18
Mark Levine (1 replies)
VLANs and Internet routing 2002-04-19
Anonymous (2 replies)
> Even if you treat your wireless network like the internet
> and require users to VPN into the core network (a great
> idea), people can use you wireless network like their
> private internet.

Wouldn't the obvious solution be to not route non-VLAN traffic to the Internet? In fact, the IPs 'outside' the VLAN tunnel could be from non-routable blocks.


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