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Carlos E. R. schreef: > > The Monday 2007-09-17 at 17:03 +0200, jdd wrote: > >> Carlos E. R. wrote: > >>> A cracker can make his PC look like one of yours and connect, instantly. >> that is a cracker can guess your wep key (don't ask me how :-(), at the >> moment >> lurking the net gives him the mac adresse of the various hosts. > > Yes, but he didn't say if he is using wep. My point is, that basing > security only in giving IPs to known machines, using the hardware address, > is not secure. Added to other methods, yes. > > And wep... I was told of an ISP technician that installed all routers in > his area withe keys of the "012345678901234567890xx" type, the last to > digits being related to the customer. The customers were happy because > they had a long key that was easy to remember. The crackers were even > happier. > > >> the problem is: why should a cracker do this on your network? If this was one >> of a big company or if your work is highly important, may be. > >> may be also an evil neigbor > > Or one without ISP, and just wanting to send his emails free. I have a > friend in that case. > > Somebody told me that once he tested his neighbors wifi network, and got > in easily. He then captured the traffic, and managed to learn his bank > login and password - shame on the bank for sending that in clear -. He > even tested it by entering the bank account, and exited. Obviously, that > neighbor was using windows. He said that, had he being malign, he would > have connected to the bank from a second neighbor network, and sent the > money to a third one: there would be no way to track him, and the police > would blame the second neighbor. > > > Anyway, M9 doesn't have neighbors, so he probably doesn't those problems :-) > Looking into my bank-account, he/she would probably get tears in his/her eyes, and in pity, he/she would send some money to my account ;-)) - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.22.5-10-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systeem: openSUSE 10.3 (X86-64) Beta3 KDE: 3.5.7 "release 58" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG78nqX5/X5X6LpDgRAsQbAJ9qZpjkTKNxRVLjpx2WUFlJ9kMo3QCfW4Ie lu7vs9A4096QkXlm+H+shUk= =+jk9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
