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Date:  Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:19:54 -0500
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From:  Sam Lewis <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [OS2Wireless] The Feds can own your WLAN too : TomsNetworking :

I haven't really been a advocate of WEP.  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.  
Well we will soon have allot more people living around our place.  So I 
guess I need to take wireless security more serious.  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.  Does 
anyone care to elaborate on the pro's and con's of Mac address filtering?

Thanks,
Sam

Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:

> I missed this one (most likely due to the usual tax season nightmare 
> which is my life between the end of January and the end of April). It 
> talks about how with some newer tools, 128-bit WEP can be cracked in a 
> just a few minutes (instead of weeks, as it used to be).
>
> http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article111-page1.php
>


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