[52243] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Rall)
Sun Sep 22 18:03:21 2002
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Tony Rall <trall@almaden.ibm.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:02:49 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sunday, 2002-09-22 at 17:06 AST, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
> Although I think it is a mistake to think a wireless network security
> is different than using any other network you don't control. Most
> wireless security tutorials tend to concentrate on "securing" the
> wireless network instead of how to communicate over an untrusted
> network.
There is no way to make the NANOG wireless setup "trusted"; you'd be
better off putting effort into securing communications on an untrusted
net.
Tony Rall
