On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:28:02PM -0700, Curt, WE7U wrote: > While I can see this as possible on amateur radio data streams, I'd > think it unlikely for someone to want to bother with it due to the > speeds we use. If we're talking 802.11a/b/g/h though it might be of > a bit more interest to the black-hats. Still, you're usually > talking about hams here, and I'd think few if any would be > interested in doing this sort of attack on RF.
If the system in question was an attractive target like a control system for a large popular repeater system, I could see it, although you'd generally have out of band access. I could definately see people attracted to trying to control a satellite, but that case is already covered by most countries' rules, I think. Sorry, I used to do security consulting as part of my job, so I think of things like this. All security, though, is a trade off between improved protection and the pain it causes. At some point you hit the point where the pain of recovering from a security breach is less than the pain you suffer to prevent it from happening. For a local system I could visit in 5 minutes and that no one cares if it goes down, I'm willing to do most any type of security. I care a lot more if I had a site up in the mountains where I had to get permission to enter the site to correct a problem, and might consider some of these solutions. Bob N2KGO - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
