[ale] kimset

[James P. Kinney III]

Nah. MAC address are easily spoofed. Use a constantly transmitting GPS
that advertises to your weapons systems where you are and shot
everywhere else :) Actually, 2kW microwave beam would be better.

On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 11:11, cfowler wrote:
> That would be the simplest method.  Then you would not have to secure
> the 802.11b segment.  Just plug in the card an go.  Oh yea,  make sure
> you tell the defragging unit your MAC address.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 11:21, Dow Hurst wrote:
> > I picture a triangulating array combined with a auto-defragger (robotic 
> > machine gun) on your roof.  Someone starts transmitting to your wireless 
> > network that isn't authorized and you zero in on them and eliminate the 
> > source. ;-)
> > Dow
> > 
> > 
> > Geoffrey wrote:
> > 
> > > cfowler wrote:
> > >
> > >> A VPN is part of an acceptable solution.  But that only protects the
> > >> data in that tunnel.  the #1 problem is that 802.11b allows anyone to
> > >> :"plug-in".  Its the same as me dragging a 100' piece of cat-5 from my
> > >> 100mb switch to the curb at home.  Anyone can plug that in and I can not
> > >> stop them.  What I have to do is secure it and make it difficult to
> > >> plug-in so that someone may not be motivated enough to do it.
> > >
> > >
> > > I love this stuff.  I was not aware of that.  Cool.  So, how is this 
> > > done?  Firewall and such, as well as restricting connectivity via Mac? 
> > > Do these devices have mac addresses?
> > >
> > > What else do you do to secure this thing?  (image of cat5 cable 
> > > flopping around in the front yard....)
> > >
> > >
> > 
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