Wi-Fi Fingerprints -- the End of MAC Spoofing?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday September 5, 2006 @05:30AM from the place-finger-here dept.

judgecorp writes, "Wireless devices can be identified by variations in their radio signaling, known as their 'transceiverprint,' according to research reported in Techworld. The Canadian researcher, Jeyanthi Hall, related the prints to MAC addresses and got a positive ID for devices connecting to a Wi-Fi network, claiming 95% success with no false positives. Once they work out how to do this without a dedicated signal analyzer and neural network processing, it's the end of MAC spoofing on wireless networks."

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Welcome to the 80's! by Keebler71 · 2006-09-05 05:44 · Score: 4, Funny

On behalf of the DoD, I would like to welcome IT geeks to antiquated military technology!

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