NASA Overcomes 802.11b Wireless Security Flaws

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 1, 2001 @03:28AM from the one-way-to-do-things dept.

4mn0t1337 writes: "Looks like the people at NASA came up with a "solution" to the weak secrutity in 802.11: Bypass it. From the article: "The team also assumed that all information on the network would be subject to eavesdropping, and that no identification information built into 802.11b could be trusted." So they chose to disable it, and set up an 'off-the-shelf PC running the OpenBSD operating system, an Apache web server, the Internet Software Consortium DHCP server, the IPF firewall software' and just depend on the security in protocols the services use. Moral of the story: Ignore the 802.11 security and just tunnel into our access points ..."

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Re:Perspective. by volsung · 2001-09-01 04:53 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Trolled by a penis bird? Trolling usually involves inflaming or angering the user. I just think that the nonsense answer captures the essence of what I am getting at. Laugh. smile. You take this all too seriously. :)