Re: [NTLK] Newton Noobie seeks help

Yes, we know - but it's marginally better than nothing, and the only
option if you want any form of security at all while having the
ability to connect your Mac to your wLAN.

We all know that anything less than WPA is pointless security-wise.
However, WPA is somewhat contra-indicated when using your Newt on
your wLAN is the goal.

Alan.

On 20 Jun 2007, at 13:01, Thomas Brand (T2) wrote:

> I reply to this subject every time with the same warning. MAC address
> filtering offers absolutely no security to anyone with a gram of
> skill or knowledge in the area of wireless data collection. This is
> because a wireless network with only MAC address filtering enabled
> can still be passively scanned. The attacker can easily determine a
> valid Mac address from the observed traffic, and spoof his MAC
> address to join the network. After that he most likely would add his
> MAC address to the filter, continue gathering data, and sharing your
> bandwidth. Please do not believe MAC address filtering offers any
> kind of security other than keeping uninformed members of the
> community off of your network.
>
> Thomas Brand (T2)
> mynewtonblog.net
>
>
> On Jun 20, 2007, at 5:47 AM, Alan Fleming wrote:
>
>> If the driver's counting down to zero, then its demo period has
>> expired. What happens then is that WEP functionality is disabled in
>> the driver. Unfortunately, there's no way left of registering the
>> driver to re-enable this, so to use with driver you'll need to change
>> your wireless network to Open, and for (some) security use MAC
>> locking to restrict which devices can join the network.
>>
>> Hope this helps, even though it's not good news..
>>
>> Alan.
>
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