On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 17:01, amilabs wrote: > I have been researchign the wisp industry and I am planning to start one > also. I assure you that most use some form of authentiction and enctyption. > I would be very bad business to leave it open not only for hacking and dos, > but also for users gaining free access. Most WISP gear supports wep and aaa > type systems.
We used to offer Wireless Local Loops (1.5Mbps up and Down). The equipment was from breezenet. Radios were about $900 a piece, but they freq hopped, and were damn near to sniff effectively. They do however run on the same 802.11b channels. While sniffing our signal, I was across from a local hospital. I was assigned an IP on the 10.100 network (Not ours)... Curiosity got me... I was in the Emergency Rooms WAP. I went to their IT Dept, and showed a very red faced IT manager. Someone got fired over that little mess. Their system was webbased patient tracking...http not https(duh). I moved down the road to "warehouse size home improvment store" (to make sure I wasn't receiving the hospital garbage)... got more junk... something that looked a lot like cash register data...over unsecured wireless. If it's wireless... it's more then likely wide open. Do I run wireless at home...yup... Am I too lazy to run WEP...yup. So I run my wireless gear in the DMZ... and chalked my sidewalk. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
