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Enhanced WiFi Security Patch For FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on from the sekrit-treehouse-password dept.

Dan writes "Roland van Laar has a new, significant wi-fi patch for FreeBSD 5.1 and higher. The patch, available for download and testing, blocks clients with an empty or 'ANY' ssid and disables ssid broadcasting using the underlying firmware feature. SSID (Service Set ID) is used to identify wireless clients to a wireless / wired gateway. Wireless devices from the same manufacturer generally ship with the same default SSID. A beacon is a type of packet/frame that contains the SSID of a network. It is used to sync clocks on client devices and to make it easy for new network clients to see what networks are available. Preventing others from using your ssid is a means (although not foolproof!) of securing your wireless network."

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  1. Dem Bones Dem Bones Dem Bones by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    TEHRAN, Dec. 27 -- The death toll from the devastating earthquake that shook the southern Iranian city of Bam for 12 seconds on Friday morning rose to 25,001, city officials said Saturday, and confirmed that BSD was among the dead.

    The interior minister, Abdolvahed Moussavi Lari, said on state television from Bam: "The city is ruined. More than 70 percent of it is destroyed. And BSD was crushed, there is no hope of survival"

    On Saturday, the tens of thousands of injured people crowded field hospitals or lay helplessly in the streets, while survivors and rescuers dug frantically trying in vain to save the crushed form of *BSD. Aftershocks jolted the area, shaking down the crumbled remains of the city's low-rise clay-tile, brick and concrete-block dwellings, which was now BSD's tomb.

  2. At least the BSD community doesn't sue its own. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    At least the BSD community doesn't have a BSD company suing BSD providers.

    Unlike GNU/Linux, where a company called Caldera IPOed based on 'selling a GNU/Linux fork', took the IPO money, bought up the SYS V UNIX IP rights, then started suing other members of the GNU/Linux 'community' once they figured out the business model for selling yet another GNU/Linux fork was not going to get them any $$$. With 'leading community members' like that, how can GNU/Linux be expected to beat Microsoft if they spend all their time beating up on each other?

  3. Excellent Troll Dude! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We need to see more of this good shit in the BSD section.