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Date:  Tue, 07 Jun 2005 14:38:12 +0700
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From:  "Jeffrey Race" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Subject: [OS2Wireless] The Feds can own your WLAN too : TomsNetworking :

On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 13:21:48 -0400, Julian Thomas wrote:

>>How secure is MAC 
>>address filtering?  It seems to me that this would be the perfect way to 
>>keep people out of my network.  But not many people use this method for 
>>securing their network or at least it isn't talked about much.
>
>I use this method, along with only powering up the WAP when I am actually
>using it.  I have read that it can be spoofed, but the attacker would need
>to know the MAC address to spoof.


It only keeps people from logging on (I use it myself on all my networks)
but it does not prevent anyone from monitoring your traffic and hacking
your transmissions


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