On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 14:19, Stuart Elvish wrote: > I was at systems security conference last week and they showed howeasy > it was to hack a wireless network. > > The best "home made" antennae was actually a pringles can, not > aNescafe / Milo tin. > > This link http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/666e/ has > amore "professional" version of the pringles can. > > Scared me off ever having a wireless network, well for the moment > anyway.
I use one, and I'm not too concerned about break-ins given how I have it configured. I have it hooked up to a dedicated port on our Linux router, with a firewall that requires an IPSec tunnel in order to allow traffic to pass to the Internet or the local LAN. This means I can also leave WEP and MAC-address restrictions disabled (after all, neither of them is as useful as it could be anyway) and provide local AP-based connectivity to others. They just can't get to my LAN or my DSL link. Unfortunately, this can be a fair bit of work and is more trouble than most want to go to. Craig Ringer
