Wireless security

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:03:35 -0800
David Aikema <davidaikema at shaw.ca> wrote:

> On February 18, 2003 06:35 am, Bill Day wrote:
> > Dave, I use DHCPd on my home network, and assign IP only to a valid mac
> > address.  That ontop of the encrypted wireless should be plenty at
> > home.. 
> 
> It isn't exactly hard to fake a mac address (unless you're running win
> 9x)... see man ifconfig for details.

And there are apps for PDAs like the Zarius that sniff an area looking for
newtork connections and will tell you all you need to know about them. One
reason to get one.

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