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Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Harrison)
Sat Sep 21 18:34:38 2002

Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 18:41:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mike Harrison <meuon@highertech.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0209211622150.21754-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> bank's customers.  Banks rarely check the signature on a check.  Is
> security just perception?

Yes. 

And I would expect that those people who cared about things 
assumed the wireless network was insecure (just like internet)
and had secured their hardware and were using secure connection
protocols: ie: SSH.. SSL.. (oh.. do they have holes?)

Still, we do what we can.



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