Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings

Sun Sep 22 22:41:43 UTC 2002

Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> but it adds annoyance for the intended users.  in the case of non-
> techs, considerable annoyance.  and it gives negligible privacy.
> 
(sigh)

Randy has the best of intentions.  But I'm tired of the old saw that 
security adds annoyance.  I long ago gave up on a WG at the IETF when 
the members wanted to add security, but with *NO* configuration.  

Sorry, any security requires a *SECRET*.  

I will agree that the security in WEP is almost useless, and have 
personally campaigned to change it for years.  But, it is still the only 
Access Control widely available.  So, it should be used, in addition to 
the better methods.
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William Allen Simpson
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