RE: Re: [H] PC security class...

[Harvey Best]

True "Wardrivers" are not doing shady things. I Wardrive as I do a lot of traveling and it's interesting. Something to do. I fix my system so that it can't connect as I Wardrive, and thats what true "Wardrivers" do. Shady people will do shady things. They don't have to be Wardriving to be shady. I have a gun to hunt with, but that doesn't make me an armed driver as I have a tool that can be used rightly or wrongly. Just my two cents. Back to watching the world go by. Oh, by the way, one of the funniest SSID names I have ever seen was in the Northern Nech area of Virginia. It was "The Barn, thats right the Barn"! That's why I "Wardrive". Recloaking. Harvey  --  hbest

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> Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 14:45:14 -0400
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
> Subject: Re: [H] PC security class...
>
> Hours? Not even.
>
> No WEP it takes seconds to read the traffic and extract a MAC. WEP takes 
> longer, but the needed packets can be coerced out of your WAP.
>
> Besides, there's more at stake there than access. What about having 
> someone capture the traffic and taking it home to decrypt to extract 
> your personal info & passwords? These days you have war drivers all over 
> doing shady things because WAP's & tools a common.
>
> While sitting waiting for my mom to come out of doctors office, I 
> scanned for an open WAP to check my email and actually found a lawyers 
> office in the same complex with an open WAP, no encryption, no MAC 
> lockdown and shares up with no password that led to client data. If not 
> for fear of being charged for theft of computing services, I would have 
> knocked on their door and offered my services for a fee. This is worse 
> case, but if had at least been WEP w/ MAC lockdown I would not have 
> simply stumbled across the shares. Of course in that environment it 
> should be WPA and the shares locked with 16+ character passwords, or not 
> on the WiFi at all.
>
> Winterlight wrote:
> > At 01:52 AM 5/3/2006, you wrote:
> >> At 12:15 PM 02/05/2006, joeuser wrote:
> >>>> 7) Wireless network security.
> >>>
> >>> *cough* Lock by MAC address. Don't expect security and why. Wired 
> >>> better for speed and security.
> >>
> >> Locking by MAC address is not secure.  It is possible to discover and 
> >> spoof MAC addresses - WPA with a very secure key is probably the only 
> >> security.
> > 
> > yeah possible, but very, very unlikely. Few people have the skills to do 
> > something like that, and I doubt one of them are going to be sitting in 
> > range of your WAP, for hours on end attempting to do so. 
> > 

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