[ale] About Wireless Connectivity

[D. Alan Stewart]

Would you care to elaborate as to why?

Bob Toxen wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:33:27PM -0500, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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?
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>About half of SysAdmins don't even enable WEP.
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>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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