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Review Of Verizon's New Wireless Network
jagger writes "The service gives you the speed of broadband, the ease of WiFi and the coverage of cellular... sort of. The service is currently rolled out in Washington D.C. and San Diego, CA but offers speeds comparable to broadband. Read the full review from Rob Pegoraro of the Washington Post at Yahoo News."
boradband?
Is it good or is it wack?
Its Windows-only PC Card modem...
Sign me too up when it runs on a real OS, not some insecure, overpriced POS.
One of the most common methods of protecting a WLAN, that I think is ignored by most people and this text, is not protecting it much at all, but restricting the use so that its unusable for anyone other than an authorized user. You turn on WAP or MAC-Address filtering to make it inconvinient to attach (though since both of these are vulnerable, this is not enough security in itself). Then you only allow access from the WLAN to your corporate VPN servers. Most machines (laptops) that make use of this will already be equipped for corporate VPN access, and so you rely on the security of your VPN in an unsecured (or relatively unsecure) network. Why are we working on all sorts of new standards when a simple combination of available standards will do just as well? Its not like using Radius auth (via SecureID or password) to your VPN is any harder for the user than any of the other suggestions coming out. Truthfully, its easier for IT since you don't have to build new security infrastructure, and you don't have to retrain users.