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Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Crocker)
Sun Sep 22 23:14:32 2002

Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 20:04:10 -0700
To: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
From: Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3D8E4703.B96CEE2B@greendragon.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


At 06:41 PM 9/22/2002 -0400, William Allen Simpson wrote:
>...  But, it is still the only
>Access Control widely available.  So, it should be used, in addition to
>the better methods.

Using a supposed security mechanism that is known to be essentially useless 
does nothing but lull people into a false sense of security.

d/

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