[vox-tech] [OT] Two questions regardless Wireless 802.11b

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Dave Margolis (margolid at ecs.csus.edu):

> You want WEP.  Even though it's a "broken" encryption scheme, you want to 
> use it.

My own solution is, oddly enough, the same I apply to wired LANs:
Assume the network is insecure.  I got into this habit when I lived in
the same building as an Internet cafe[1], and shared a T-1 line and
ethernet hubs with the cafe's Linux hosts.

I carry host keys (and gpg keys, etc.) on my USB flash drive so that I
don't have to trust the DNS to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks, and
use encrypted transport when/if I want privacy across the network.
Works for Me.<tm>

> My suggestion is use mac filtering AND wep AND ssid hiding.  

My house's WLAN uses MAC filtering and ssid hiding (not my idea) but no 
WLAN-level crypto.  In theory, a drive-by spammer could impersonate a
registered MAC address and operate at the end of my driveway -- until I
come out brandishing my baseball-bat LART.  ;->

[1] Mirror:  http://linuxmafia.com/coffeenet/

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