7 Jan
2005
7 Jan
'05
22:20
Michael W Cocke wrote:
What I was referring to was a live demo I saw a few weeks back - using a laptop, a standard wireless network card, and several freely available linux programs (freely available if you know where to look), the wireless network in an adjacent office suite was completely broken in about 20 minutes. Everything that went over the link was showing up in clear on the laptop - credit card numbers, passwords, client data...
WEP 128 is about as useless as Windows. You can't do that on a wired lan, which is all that I'll be using from here on, thanks. Scared the crap out of me, to be completely honest.
For WiFi security, place the router or access point outside your firewall and then use a vpn, to access your local network.