, 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
2002-04-18
Mark Levine (1 replies)
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Peddling Snake Oil as Security
2002-04-19
net@ether (2 replies)
net@ether (2 replies)
An example: corp.com has a large campus that they want to provide wireless access for their laptop users. So they setup an isolated network bordered by a firewall/VPN gateway. The corp.com users connect via VPN to the corp.com core. All is well. Now on the north side of the large campus AgentX (with no internet access) runs Airsnort and finds out the SSID for the nearest wireless access point. He calls AgentZ (who has a cable modem), who lives on the south side of the campus 8 miles away, and tells him the SSID. Now AgentX can forward traffic to AgentZ, thereby using corp.com's wireless network. Now AgentX downloads porn all day at 5 mbps and corp.com is wondering why the wireless network is so darn slow.
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