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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)
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Mark Levine (1 replies)
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Anonymous (2 replies)
VLANs and Internet routing 2002-04-19
Mark Levine
VLANs and Internet routing 2002-04-19
Nicholas Weaver
It sounds like what is being described is using the various access points (in their VLAN) as a network for communicating between individuals, not individuals and outside the net.

Thus you can't even just set up a VLAN, what is needed is individual routing of each 802.11 link to the firewall machine, and then the VPN box on the other side, so that someone can't use your 802.11 access points as a wide area network without having to pass through the firewall/VPN.



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