Wifi Security

Mon Nov 21 15:36:43 UTC 2005

* steve at telecomplete.co.uk (Stephen J. Wilcox) [Mon 21 Nov 2005, 16:07 CET]:
>On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>>Why would you even need to set up an AP?  Why not just sit and sniff 
>>traffic?  Gets you the _exact_ same information.
>man in the middle is easier if you are the gateway, no need to steal arp

It's *wireless*!  You can just sit and sniff traffic, no need to play 
ARP games to redirect traffic to you.

>heres some fun, next time you're at nanog or your favourite geek 
>conference, just run 'tcpdump -w - -s1500 -nn|strings|grep -i password' 
>and be prepared to hit scroll lock ;)

I've visited conferences where the wireless LAN was deemed "secure" by 
the organisation because they had outlawed sniffers.

	-- Niels.