On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:21:47 +0200, you wrote:
Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 09:17 PM 9/9/2005 -0400, Don Parris (webdev@matheteuo.org) wrote:
I'd like to setup at least two, maybe two boxes and a Dell Latitude C610 laptop on a wireless LAN - preferably with SUSE 10.0 (I'm playing with beta 4 now).
(snip) Wireless is reckless! Anyone driving by the house, as well as close neighbors, can tap into your wireless network. Using a small Yagi antenna, people as far as a quarter mile away may be able to get in. The antenna is readily available from outfits like Cushcraft. A wired LAN is much safer.
While this is true for unencrypted WLAN's, I doubt if this claim holds water for the serious encryption technology modern wireless hardware offers.
You must be joking. 'serious encryption technology'? Please - I've seen systems that were theoretically encrypted hacked in less than an hour, and most people don't enable the encryption anyway... I recommend against wireless LANs to all of my clients in the strongest terms possible. It's not worth it. Just for demo purposes I have some special software (freely available, downloaded from the internet) loaded on my palm. I've hacked hospitals, libraries, HMOs.. you name it - sitting in their waiting rooms, in front of their IT managers - who generally turn white and leave abruptly, returning shortly with signed contracts. Mike- -- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments.