[52233] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Crocker)
Sat Sep 21 22:22:44 2002
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 19:21:48 -0700
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
From: Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0209211957580.21971-100000@clifden.donelan.c
om>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 08:46 PM 9/21/2002 -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
>Is the Nanog confernce network really insecure for its purpose?
...
>I don't see much of a need to rely on a volunteer network operator to
>provide what I think is the appropriate level of security for my
>communications.
exactly.
seems like the same situation as we have for walk-by hot-spot wireless
nets. is anyone suggesting that they should have some special, local
privacy mechanisms, rather than each user relying on providing their own,
end-to-end mechanisms?
>ICANN had armed guards at its meeting to keep the rif-raff out.
In fact there was a public disclosure of a trivial circumvention of that
mechanism.
It was never clear what actual benefit the guards were supposed to provide,
either.
d/
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