[86884] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wifi Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Kuhtz)
Mon Nov 21 10:42:24 2005
In-Reply-To: <20051121153643.GA1558@burnout.tpb.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtzch@corp.earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:41:56 -0500
To: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Nov 21, 2005, at 10:36 AM, Niels Bakker wrote:
>
>> heres some fun, next time you're at nanog or your favourite geek
>> conference, just run 'tcpdump -w - -s1500 -nn|strings|grep -i
>> password' and be prepared to hit scroll lock ;)
>
> I've visited conferences where the wireless LAN was deemed "secure"
> by the organisation because they had outlawed sniffers.
That line of thinking is unfortunately not unique to outlawing
sniffers ;-)..
