Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings

Mon Sep 23 14:48:21 UTC 2002

> > > 10-15 minutes. None of the doors of that class is in your house. Why do you
> > > have a door on your house?
> > 
> > It keeps honest people honest, and opportunists from taking advantage of 
> > easy opportunity. 
> 
> Thank you. Why is it different from putting even rudimentary security in
> place on the wireless LAN? 

I think it does exactly the same thing... And... I just
opened up the wireless network at the local convention center
for a convention. Placards at the entrance advertise it's presence, 
and that it is not secure. Reccomendations include NOT using plain POP
e-mail.. etc.. 