[52291] in North American Network Operators' Group
RatHole: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Al Rowland)
Mon Sep 23 14:14:28 2002
From: "Al Rowland" <alan_r1@corp.earthlink.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 11:14:05 -0700
In-Reply-To: <DE060A8E-CEC0-11D6-B9E9-0003931044DC@improbable.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
"That [WEB] will give people a false sense of security." IMHO those
'people' are a group that is a subset of folk that will do 'unwise'
things no matter what level of scurity is in place.
Move along, nothing to see here...
Internet != secure, period.
Best regards,
_________________________
Alan Rowland
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Chris Adams
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 11:51 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings
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
