[Gllug] Wireless encryption

[Jason Clifford]

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, John G Walker wrote:

> What about the hardware options? I run a Netgear router which only
> allows specified MAC addresses to access it wirelessly (Is that the
> right word? My spellchecker objects to it.). Are you saying this is not
> enough?

Absolutely.

It is trivially easy to set the MAC on a network interface to whatever you 
want. 

Accordingly all I need to do is to silently watch traffic on your wireless 
network for a short period of time and I will collect the MACs of every 
client - all of which will be sufficient to authenticate me to use and 
abuse the network.

With ecryption there is a barrier to this.

Jason
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