We offered to let the author come hack into our network, but when he learned it was freqency hopping and not based on dime-a-dozen 802.11b hardware, he opted to save his time. Businesses and informed users prefer to spend a little more and get better security than the standard airport/linksys/lucent/802.11b gear.
This is not 802.11b and there is no software for cracking 802.11 Frequency hopping. Radio console ports are password protected.
Perhaps not infinitely secure, but probably 100x better than 802.11b. There are ISPs using 802.11b
and some of them are quite concerned about security, especially in college towns!
The only people that urge for subsidies are the phone companies, so they can take the money and make things happen real slow or not at all. As for your situation, I'd suggest helping your local ISP make it happen, or moving (I suggest local ISP because it requires a knowledge of the local terrain and land owners)
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We offered to let the author come hack into our network, but when he learned it was freqency hopping and not based on dime-a-dozen 802.11b hardware, he opted to save his time. Businesses and informed users prefer to spend a little more and get better security than the standard airport/linksys/lucent/802.11b gear.
That is my network the article is about.
This is not 802.11b and there is no software for cracking 802.11 Frequency hopping. Radio console ports are password protected.
Perhaps not infinitely secure, but probably 100x better than 802.11b. There are ISPs using 802.11b
and some of them are quite concerned about security, especially in college towns!
The only people that urge for subsidies are the phone companies, so they can take the money and make things happen real slow or not at all. As for your situation, I'd suggest helping your local ISP make it happen, or moving (I suggest local ISP because it requires a knowledge of the local terrain and land owners)
-Jason