[OS2Wireless] The Feds can own your WLAN too : TomsNetworking :
Tarih:
Mon, 06 Jun 2005 13:21:48 -0400
Alacak:
os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
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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