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802.11b Honeypots Open for Business

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the are-you-secure dept.

11thangel writes "SecurityFocus is running a story about a wireless honeypot project, being run by the SAIC. The setup consists of 5 Cisco access points in the Washington D.C. area, with two extra antennas (high gain omni's) plugged in. The network itself has a bunch of comps with various vulnerabilities, similar to a traditional honeypot. At the present, the network doesn't have a net connection, but the administrator is considering hooking it through a web proxy that would add a consent-to-monitor banner, so he can watch who's doing what. Time to find a WiFi card that can MAC-hop."

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  1. Honeypots by rustycage · · Score: 5, Funny

    O' bother.

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  2. Our Nation's Capital by BDew · · Score: 2, Funny

    Washington has been described many ways in the past, but as a "hot spot for laptop-toting cyberpunks"??? I'm obviously hanging out in the wrong crowd...

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    1. Re:Our Nation's Capital by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      You need to hang out in "Cyberpunkia", it's a hidden area (cloaked) in DC, reachable only by a special hidden stop on the Metro (between Tenleytown and Van Ness). When the train reaches the half way point (where it turns a bit), you need to do an emergency train stop, open the door, and enter the hidden door (open it with your laptop). I know it sounds kinda complicated, but once you do it once, it's easy to do again.

  3. Honeypots by ivrcti · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wireless and honeypots.... Isn't that redundant?

  4. Re:*sigh* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    the right to bear cryptography

    A grizzly future for crypto, indeed.

  5. Re:Warchalk by Anonym1ty · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess the warchalkers should add another symbol to their icons to warn people about honeypots.

    Just draw your symbol and the quote Winne the Pooh... Write "Oh Bother" accross your pretty little symbol

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  6. Re:*sigh* by Oculus+Habent · · Score: 4, Funny
    Just one example of why 802.11 isn't really an ideal protocol for public networks.

    802.11 isn't a service or a communications protocol, it's a network layer. This is like complaining that 100 base-T doesn't have a MOTD

    Brand new MOTD for cat5e! Just enter the message you want with this 1Hz binary input rocker switch, and in just minutes (depending on message length and encoding*) you can improperly interrupt network communications with a hardware-layer message.

    * Available in ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-6, and Unicode. Check with local suppliers for availability. Comes with free hexadecimalbinary convertor chart.

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