Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you, eh? Regards, Bob... --------------------------------------------------------------- "I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them long winter evenings." -- Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bob Blakely wrote: > >> Unless your a hacker, you have no need to change a MAC address and you >> shouldn't. Doing so can cause network havoc. > > That's the point, Bob. It's easy-peasy to sniff a MAC address if you're > a bad guy intent on monitoring a network connection, whether wired or > wireless. With WEP, it's trivially easy to break the crypto. With WPA > it's harder but still doable. I don't trust /anything/ on an > unauthenticated link, or even an authenticated one if it doesn't have > stronger crypto than WPA, unless I control both ends of the medium and > every point in between. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
