On Jul 2, 2005, at 5:07 PM, David Lesher wrote:
A) WEP is roughly the equal of the hookeye on a screen-door. The
designers made some major errors and it's not secure by any means.
B) WPA is far better, but I've read of cracks there as well.
If you are serious about security, you need to run a VPN.
If all you want to do is block casual users, either will do...
Another option is to limit the number of concurrent connections to
just what you're likely to be running. If you have just the one
computer, limit it to just one connection.
Then even if the neighbor kid hacks your WEP key and MAC address,
he's still denied access. If you get on and are denied access, reset
the airport. That kicks him and you can connect.
Truthfully though, 50% of all the 'wireless borrowing' I've seen
wasn't even intentional. someone gets a wireless router, they hook
it up, connect to 'Linksys' or 'Dlink' or whatever, not realizing
they connected to their neighbors not theirs. In markets like Tucson,
where cable modem connections far outstrip dsl (Qwest
ssssuuuuuuccccckkkkksssss!) , most folks don't even notice any
difference.
Most of the rest are people who turned it on at home, realized they
got an internet connection, and never even think about it, just 'Cool!'.
I even had one of our users indignantly accuse us of throttling her
dial-up connection to unusable levels. She'd connected the phone line
and dialed in, but her wireless adapter was already connecting at a
much higher speed.
Then her neighbor with the wide open router moved...and she started
using the modem for real. Since the wireless had come with a new,
faster computer, she naturally thought the higher speed was due to
the new computer.
I'd wager 90% of the home wireless routers out there are still named
their default name, *still* have 'admin' as the administrative
password, and have no security enabled whatsoever.
--
Bruce Johnson
"No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai
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