Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings
John M. Brown
john at chagresventures.com
Sun Sep 22 22:13:27 UTC 2002
Use VPN technology, Use 802.11a/b as the media and nothing else.
Encrypte Tunnel your connections.
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 05:06:27PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Randy Bush wrote:
> > - the users need to be told how to operate more safely, use
> > end-to-end authentication and privacy, etc. it's a matter of
> > education. and the education will stand them in good stead
> > when they use 802.11 at starbucks, airports, etc. we do this
> > at ietf, but it is not allowed at nanog.
>
> Sunday afternoon is full of tutorials on lots of different subjects.
> Has anyone volunteed to conduct a Sunday tutorial on wireless security
> for users of "public" wireless networks?
>
> Although I think it is a mistake to think a wireless network security
> is different than using any other network you don't control. Most
> wireless security tutorials tend to concentrate on "securing" the
> wireless network instead of how to communicate over an untrusted
> network.
>
>
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