From: Morgan Aldridge (makkintosshu_at_mac.com)
Date: Thu Feb 02 2006 - 14:28:08 PST
Will,
You are correct. I had not broken out any of my network tools to
verify that point. Please see the note at the bottom of that message
saying that I hadn't verified how the MAC address was included with
WiFi packets and there was a good possibility that one would be able
to know which MAC addresses were connected.
I should have tagged the asterisk onto my response to #2 as well. In
fact, I should have just reread my responses once I finished typing
the message.
Sincerely,
Morgan Aldridge
-- morgant_at_makkintosshu.com http://www.makkintosshu.com/ On Feb 2, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Will Ross wrote: >>> 2. lock down your network by mac addresses >>> >> >> This is an excellent thing to do, no doubt about it. However, it only >> restricts who can actually connect to the network. It would take an >> _extremely_ long time to brute-force[1] a MAC address (a high power >> of ten years, most likely) to connect to the network, your data is >> still flowing, unencrypted, through the air. A WiFi sniffer has >> little difficulty reading the packets. >> > Wrong. Using KisMAC, I can see all connected users and their MAC > addresses. Then it is as simple as changing my MAC address to theirs. > > -Will > ______________ > Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum > saxum immane mittam > > Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati > > "Veni, vidi, vici" > -Julius Caesar > -- > This is the NewtonTalk list - http://www.newtontalk.net/ for all > inquiries > Official Newton FAQ: http://www.chuma.org/newton/faq/ > WikiWikiNewt for all kinds of articles: http://tools.unna.org/ > wikiwikinewt/ > -- This is the NewtonTalk list - http://www.newtontalk.net/ for all inquiries Official Newton FAQ: http://www.chuma.org/newton/faq/ WikiWikiNewt for all kinds of articles: http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/
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