[86889] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wifi Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Mon Nov 21 10:59:38 2005
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:51:58 +0200
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: matthew.ford@bt.com
Cc: niels=nanog@bakker.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4E28CEA517A795438B120F62D182A8C9026F0E55@I2KM11-UKBR.domain1.systemhost.net>
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matthew.ford@bt.com wrote:
>>* steve@telecomplete.co.uk (Stephen J. Wilcox) [Mon 21 Nov
>>2005, 16:07 CET]:
>>
>>>On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>>>
>>>>Why would you even need to set up an AP? Why not just sit
>>
>>and sniff
>>
>>>>traffic? Gets you the _exact_ same information.
>>>
>>>man in the middle is easier if you are the gateway, no need
>>
>>to steal arp
>>
>>It's *wireless*! You can just sit and sniff traffic, no need to play
>>ARP games to redirect traffic to you.
>
>
> *Active* attacks are facilitated by rogue APs and arp spoofing.
>
> Mat.
Exactly! It can't be put in any other terms... However, I believe the
point he was trying to make was that there are other attacks as well.
Gadi.
