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Responsible Wireless Access For Your Access Point

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the accessability-and-sanity dept.

bgood writes: "O'Reilly Network has an interesting article on authentication for wireless networks. The author discusses both the technical aspects, specifically NoCatAuth, and the overall context of why someone would choose (or not choose) to monitor or track the use of their wireless network. While geared towards network neighborhoods, the article definitely has applicability in more formal settings."

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  1. Re:auth? by Falsch+Freiheit · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, MAC address based firewall rules won't solve the security problem, either. They'll raise the barrier slightly, but it's fairly easy with most 802.11b cards (and with regular Ethernet cards, for that matter) to use a different MAC address than the one assigned to your device. Under Linux it's "ifconfig eth0 hw ether [new MAC address here]". Not nearly difficult enough.