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Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Mon Sep 23 09:48:50 2002

From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: <alex@yuriev.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:48:04 +0300
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


>
> Rubbish.
>
> There are only two or three types of locks that cannot be picked from the
> outside by a lockpicker within 10-15 minutes. None of those locks is on your
> outside door. Why do you bother to lock your house?
>
But in the case of public WLAN, who is the one that you´re trying
to keep out? You don´t give the keys to your house to 500 people so
your analogy sucks.

Pete



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