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Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Mon Sep 23 10:23:02 2002

From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk@cisco.com>
Cc: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:19:42 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


In message <006a01c2630a$19725020$ab876540@amer.cisco.com>, "Stephen Sprunk" wr
ites:

>
>I can't say without a sniffer, but I'd bet that most NANOG participants are
>doing the same: SSH or IPsec VPN's back to home (wherever that is).

Experience doesn't support this, I fear.  How many passwords were 
captured last time?  

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com ("Firewalls" book)



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