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NASA Overcomes 802.11b Wireless Security Flaws
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 ..."
Even I'm a bit amazed at how quickly someone got around this. Protocol-ased security is just weak. Here's a description on how to get past NASA's method. Gratned, it's just a model but it shouldn't be too hard to modify it to the real thing.
really not surprise here. slashdot hypocrisy is legendary. it's just as funny as michael posting YRO articles. keep up the good work, though i fear soon you will be bitchslapped again.
How is this news?
The real "news" here is that NASA would find it appropriate to issue a press release on a project I would expect anyone half rational and competent to be able to figure out and implement in their sleep.
"This just in from NAS NASA - We have succesfully patched IIS against Code Red thus developing the glue to keep our servers up and operational [editorial: for now]. More on this exciting development can be read at slashdot.org"
Please... Spend my tax dollars telling me how close you are at getting me and countless others some time in space. Not on how your (notably horrible in security) NAS team has defeated the WEP weaknesses that everyone and their brother already knew how to get around.
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