Message-Id: <200506061713.j56HDuL07143@ruby.fltg.net>
In-Reply-To: <42A477AA.7010102@rollanet.org>
Date:  Mon, 06 Jun 2005 13:21:48 -0400
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From:  "Julian Thomas" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [OS2Wireless] The Feds can own your WLAN too : TomsNetworking :

In <42A477AA.7010102@rollanet.org>, on 06/06/05 
   at 11:19 AM, Sam Lewis <saml@rollanet.org> typed:

> I currently live out in the 
>boonies so I always figured that when I see a cow or donkey with a 
>wireless laptop then I'll start worrying a little more about security.  

Same here.  The nearest neighbor doesn't even own a computer.

>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.
 
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 In the beautiful Finger Lakes Wine Country of New York State!
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