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On The State of Wireless

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gotta-make-it-better dept.

There's a short piece on Mindjack about the state of wireless. Actually, the piece is a minireview of a piece that Nicholas Carroll produced at Hastings Research. Yes, it's a PDF, and yes, it costs money. Having read through it, it's also totally worth it, especially if you are an organization that does basically anything with wireless.

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  1. Re:Wireless is definately the way forward. by Sloppy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The real problem with wireless at the moment is security. WEP notwithstanding, it is still far to easy to take an 802.11b equipped laptop outside a large corporation, and to gain acess to its network with little more effort than clicking a mouse.

    But this really just makes a problem that already existed, more obvious. If switching to wireless looks insecure, then you're probably already insecure.

    That's why I think wireless will increase security: it'll get people to realize that they have to patch up their holes. Before wireless, they ignored the problem. I know of plenty of customer sites where you can log in to certain servers with full read/write permissions to everything, without even knowing a password. And anyone wearing anything that looks like a uniform and holding a piece of paper and looking busy, could effortlessly infiltrate their office and hook a laptop onto their ethernet (then log in, sniff, or whatever). Maybe with wireless, that kind of vulnerability will finally end.

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  2. The author by intuition · · Score: 5, Informative
    Maybe you would like to see a picture of the author No? What about his wife Maxi..... or is it Lisa? If the first article wasn't deviod of any information, maybe you would like to read another penned by the same man. Of course the author has already changed his homepage to reflect the fact that his article was posted on slashdot.


    As for Hastings Research : maybe you would like to see a sample of some of their other quality research. When have you ever heard a white paper draw a metaphor between market conditions and a glass being half full? But seriously they do have a six foot magnetic whiteboard to "prototype" their research. (they don't put rookies in center field either.) If you need to know they also provide a list of profitable web sites. (Look to the bottom of the page for their judicious use of "keywords" to help prop up their standing in search engine results.)


    This is the worst article ever on slashdot.