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Linksys Shows Off New Products To SOCALWUG
John Hering writes "Last night at the Southern California Wireless Users Group (SOCALWUG) meeting, a representative from Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems, presented several new never-before-seen Linksys products which including a wireless-G range extender, a wireless switch, wireless network attached storage and even a new Boingo co-branded wireless-G router which will serve as an off-the-shelf hotspot solution. It's interesting to note how the new Linksys products continue to look more and more like Cisco products."
... is the one that won't allow unencrypted 802.11 links to happen. Whenever I go wardriving, half of the hits I get from kismet have SSID="LINSYS", WEP="NO".
Personally, I think the design style that linksys has gone with has built a little mini-brand and I can't see why they're messing with that. By changing that I think Cisco goes a long way to telling customers 'the name might be Linksys, but you're not really buying Linksys products anymore'. They might think it's a good thing, but others might not. The products seem to D-Link-y now.
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This, for anyone who knows dick about radios, is the height of stupidity. There are, very rarely, time where it makes sense to amplify a low gain antenna, but monkeys are not qualified to make this decision.
Tell me, do you really pay Slashdot to pass for a raving lunatic, or did someone offer you a subscription for Christmas?
I have new for you: if you knew "dick" about radio yourself, you'd know that stock AP "antennas" aren't really antenna at all and rarely reach 2.2dBi anyway. As for the "morons" who buy RF amps, they may not be "specialists" like yourself.
In fact, most 802.11 users don't know anything about it, except that it's convenient and they just have to connect to the router's internal web server to configure it. And when they want more range, they buy whatever solution the shop sells them. Just like most people who drive cars don't know anything about how cars work, and let AutoZone sell them gasoline additives to "clean their injectors": well, if you don't know anything about cars, how will they know it's snake oil?
So, why don't you get off your high horse and stop talking out of your arse?
True, but then you have companies that insist on having "open" conference rooms, lounges, lobbies, and so on. Out of the box, IMHO, the router shouldn't start serving up wireless, UNTIL the EU properly configures WEP; or acknowledges having an open network will allow "anyone" in.
Why in the WORLD would you want that?!
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First off...
We want to ENCOURAGE open wireless networks! If you live in a dense city like San Francisco (where I live) if we had enough open networks we would have a decentralized Internet infrastructure across the city.
I'm sitting in a coffee shop right now in the Haight district of San Francisco (Waller and Cole actually) and there are 5 wireless networks on the corner.
The downsize is that 2 of them are WEP and I can't really get decent signal on the others due to lack of decent antenna and LoS.
Criaglist founder Criag Newmark is nice enough to have an Open AP right up the street but it's too far for me to reach it.
Second... WEP is NOT secure. What we REALLY need is a decent AP that has ipsec already setup and still allows open connections.
Of course I've been leading the way here. I've had an Open AP in my last 3 appts. Never had any problem.
Also.. when the RIAA comes calling I have probable deniability. I can just tell the Judge that it was some random wireless user and I have a Linksys AP and I'm not smart enough to secure it
Kevin
MAC filtering does nothing for security. Passive monitoring is no harder on a MAC filtered network than on a non-filtered, and active attacks aren't much harder (associate as a valid MAC).
WEP has flaws, but suggesting MAC filtering instead is a bad, bad idea.
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Mod me down, you fucking twits. Go ahead. I dare you.
(I read with sigs off.)
Also.. when the RIAA comes calling I have probable deniability. I can just tell the Judge that it was some random wireless user and I have a Linksys AP and I'm not smart enough to secure it ;)
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That will only work so many times. After a couple of people use that defense, you can bet somebody is going to push some law mandating the securing of wireless networks, either by requiring manufacturers to make it easier or passing a law that says that the network owner is responsible for *anything* illegal that goes thru his/hers network.
Rest assured, they'll try to convince people it's in the interest on national security *and* to prevent child pornography ("won't somebody please think of the children").
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Umm, why is this a troll? Cisco's support policies and hardware reliability are not that great, given the extreme expense for same.
Ferinstance, just try downloading a flash image for say, a CSS 11150 box. You pay $10k for the thing, and then you can't download a ROM image without paying about $1500 a year for support.
Riiiight.
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