[52290] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Mon Sep 23 13:04:17 2002
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 23:51:20 -0700
From: Chris Adams <chris@improbable.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3D8E4703.B96CEE2B@greendragon.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sunday, Sep 22, 2002, at 15:41 US/Pacific, William Allen Simpson
wrote:
> I will agree that the security in WEP is almost useless, and have
> personally campaigned to change it for years. But, it is still the
> only
> Access Control widely available. So, it should be used, in addition to
> the better methods.
That will give people a false sense of security. Wouldn't it be better
to use an approach like NetReg to give every user a warning when they
first connect to the network? That doesn't require any arcane software
config and would give an accurate indication of how secure the network
is.
Chris
