[ale] About Wireless Connectivity

[Stuffed Crust]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:35:05AM -0700, Joe wrote:
> Re. WEP: Google for "airsnort" and "WEPcrack". These tools, among others,
> permit WEP keys to be cracked in a matter of minutes on a busy network.

And it's alwo worth mentioning that every current product I've seen
filters out the known weak classes of IVs, which makes cracking WEP
brute-force once again. 

You lose nothing by using WEP.  At worst, it's still better than a
wide-open network.

> Re. MAC filtering: MAC addresses are easily spoofed, if you have
> hardware and drivers that support it. I imagine many wireless cards
> and drivers do. Many wired Ethernet cards certainly do.

Most, if not all do.

But at the same time, you lose nothing by doing this, and it pretty much
guarantees only a determined cracker will get into your network.

Come on, not turning WEP/Filtering on is analogous to saying "let's just
leave the front door wide open because someone could pick the lock or
kick it in if they tried"

If someone compromises my WEP keys and spoofs one of the three allowed 
MAC addresses for my home network, by all means, they can use my cable 
modem to get online.  To get anything more than that would require them 
to bruteforce some passwords via ssh, and that's gonna take quite a lot 
of determination, and frankly it would be simpler for them to kick my 
door down and walk off with the computers.

 - Pizza
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