Re: [NTLK] [NTLK][OT] Lucent Wavelan Turbo Silver - success!

From: Will Ross (paxswill_at_mac.com)
Date: Thu Feb 02 2006 - 11:37:32 PST


>> 2. lock down your network by mac addresses
>>
>
> This is an excellent thing to do, no doubt about it. However, it only
> restricts who can actually connect to the network. It would take an
> _extremely_ long time to brute-force[1] a MAC address (a high power
> of ten years, most likely) to connect to the network, your data is
> still flowing, unencrypted, through the air. A WiFi sniffer has
> little difficulty reading the packets.
>
Wrong. Using KisMAC, I can see all connected users and their MAC
addresses. Then it is as simple as changing my MAC address to theirs.

-Will
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