[52280] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Mon Sep 23 10:05:10 2002
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:06:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20020923135241.GF6531@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Someone stood at your front door with lock picking tools for more than a
> couple of minutes is going to arouse suspicion, and hopefully cause someone
> to call the police.
>
> Someone sat in the hotel lobby with a powerful laptop isn't going to cause
> anyone to look twice, at a NANOG conference.
Neither would someone standing in front of your door with lockpicks on a
busy streeet. You would be amazed how small those tools are.
The point of the post was that knowledge of the limitations of tools that we
use to protect access does not justify not using those tools at all.
Alex
