[mdlug] WiFi -Woes(?) or Broadcom is 'the' lame

[Brian]

On Friday 30 November 2007 08:20:50 am Michael Newman wrote:
> Why not leave the network open and filter MAC addresses. That would be
> more secure than wpa2 and should allow you to connect freely since the
> protection is all in the router. With the linksys router it is pretty
> basic to set up. Also if you leave things open make sure you change
> the ipaddress and password on the local router. In college people
> would change ssids and passwords just for fun on whatever routers were
> found open.
>

Without WPA or some form of encryption this method doesn't really buy you 
much.  You're still vulnerable to sniffing based attacks.  This means that 
people could grab your mac address for spoofing with ifconfig as well as your 
routers administrative password ;)

-- 
Brian
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