[nycwireless] "Security Breaches, Congestion Found At Trade Show WLAN"
is the beginning of the end for unlicensed? - http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/cmp/20040625/tc_cmp/ 22101829 Mobile Pipeline News Attendees of this week's Supercomm trade show in Chicago faced a variety of wireless LAN security breaches, according to a firm that specializes in wireless security. The show also was notable for the large number of "soft access points" installed on the laptops of attendees. That latter problem isn't always a a security concern, but it can wreak havoc to users, according to an executive of AirDefense. "People are taking control of their connectivity by purchasing software that turns their laptops into functioning access points," said Richard Rushing, chief security officer of AirDefense, said in a statement. "Consequently they are creating additional confusion and interference on the already congested network." AirDefense was monitoring the airwaves at the show in conjunction with IBM, which installed the public WLAN. At times the congestion was serious -- at one point it found 117 users trying to access a single hotspot at one time. Because of that congestion, many people wound up inadvertently connecting to soft APs, which means lost connections and, potentially, security problems. Overall, AirDefense found that only 10 percent secured their connection using a virtual private network. It also monitored a number of specific potential security breaches, including 50 devices scanning the ntwork and 40 devices using spoofed MAC addresses. It also found eight hotspot hijacking sessions. However, AirDefense did not say whether those breaches were caused by demonstrations of wireless security products, as has been the case at previous trade shows with public WLANs. The company has monitored the public WLAN airwaves at a number of recent trade shows and has repeatedly found a variety of security breaches. -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] "Security Breaches, Congestion Found At Trade Show WLAN"
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 11:15:58PM +0900, Anthony Townsend wrote: > However, AirDefense did not say whether those breaches were caused by > demonstrations of wireless security products, as has been the case at > previous trade shows with public WLANs. The company has monitored the > public WLAN airwaves at a number of recent trade shows and has > repeatedly found a variety of security breaches. Well duh ... Id really assume that if I were attending a WLAN conference that there would be demos of the stuff id be buying before I decided on something. The article is a ploy to sell more AD sensors (a rather expensive solution). I was going to demo hijacking @ the meeting but figured it would do more harm than good (however on the contrary awareness is #1 key to prevention). - Jon -- pgp key: http://www.jonbaer.net/jonbaer.asc fingerprint: F438 A47E C45E 8B27 F68C 1F9B 41DB DB8B 9A0C AF47 -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] Wireless Cards for Windows 95?
FWIW if ever you really need 128-bit WEP, you should now be able to perform this alchemy, going by my last visit to the Netstumbler.net forums. I should be able to dig out the link if requested... -Original Message- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:09:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Kevin Arima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [nycwireless] Wireless Cards for Windows 95? To: NYC_Wireless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Rudy Milanes wrote: > Hi guys, a friend game me her old PC with Win95 the > other day, it works fine. The only problem is that > I'm having difficulties finding a compatible wireless > card for it. Does anybody know about a compatible > card? > The original ORiNOCO (nee WaveLAN) cards should work under Win95 properly. If you don't mind it being 64-bit WEP encrypted, I have the silver ORiNOCO card that I'd be willing to part cheaply. Contact me off-list if you need more details. Kevin "Starfox" Arima This email communication is confidential and is intended solely for whom it is addressed. Copying, or re-using in any way by anyone else is unauthorised. Any views or opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of GL TRADE or any of its affiliates. If you have received this mail in error, please destroy the copy in your possession and notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email communication is confidential and is intended solely for whom it is addressed. Copying, or re-using in any way by anyone else is unauthorised. Any views or opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of GL TRADE or any of its affiliates. If you have received this mail in error, please destroy the copy in your possession and notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
RE: [nycwireless] WifiNetNews: Airports Hit Brick Wall in Regulating Unlicensed Radio
Hello all, I think at least part of the problem is technical as well. Pretty much any medium-to-large scale b/g deployment requires the entire spectrum (i.e., all 3 channels) to be used for a particular building/geography. In high density areas such as NYC or other multi-tenant environments such as Airports you are pretty much guaranteed co-channel interference from overlapping deployments in the same RF space. Many large WiFi users in NYC are having issues with services like Verizon's WiFi bleeding into their office environment and interfering with APs on the same or overlapping channels. One way to mitigate this issue is to deploy all of the APs on the same channel. There are a few vendors that have architectures that allow this capability. Of course, there are other challenges, but spectrum allocation is a core issue. Another way, highlighted in this article is to designate a WiFi authority for a particular chunk of real estate. I've seen this starting to happen a little more in suburban commercial leasing agreements. Not so much in the urban areas where tenants perhaps see WiFi as more strategic to their own business operations. Tom Atkins Meru Networks Northeast Region Sales Manager Office -- (203) 341-0140 Cell -- (917) 270-6500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.merunetworks.com -Original Message- From: Dustin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 5:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [nycwireless] WifiNetNews: Airports Hit Brick Wall in Regulating Unlicensed Radio This is great news and puts an end to the debate we have had many times as to whether or not a landlord could bar deployment of a wireless node. Does this mean that a commercial landlord cannot put a lease provision in reserving the right to control deployment of unlicensed wireless equipment? It seems for the most part landlords can stick whatever they want into a lease, especially a commercial lease. - Dustin - http://wifinetnews.com/archives/003937.html "Airports Hit Brick Wall in Regulating Unlicensed Radio The FCC says landlords, associations can’t regulate Part 15 use: The FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology says that the function of regulating and coordinating frequency use is reserved to the FCC itself. It’s a clear refutation of mall owners, airports, and condominium associations to limit use of Wi-Fi and other wireless technologies. (Document as Word, PDF, Text.)" -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] WifiNetNews: Airports Hit Brick Wall in Regulating Unlicensed Radio
Yes, but does this FCC ruling mean that any lease clauses that impose this kind of restriction are unenforceable? On Jun 29, 2004, at 1:31 AM, Tom Atkins wrote: Another way, highlighted in this article is to designate a WiFi authority for a particular chunk of real estate. I've seen this starting to happen a little more in suburban commercial leasing agreements. -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] Using Open Nodes in France?
Is anyone familiar with how the law, gov't regulations, or ISP user-agreements treat the situation of using a stranger's residential access point to get onto the internet with/without them knowing? If I, for example, use a stranger's access point to browse the web am I violating a particular law or agreement? Is this legal grey area in the EU and France (that depends on a number or factors)? Or is it more clearly violating one of the above? thanks, Yury -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] Using Open Nodes in France?]
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 02:29:37PM -0400, Yury G wrote: > Is anyone familiar with how the law, gov't regulations, or ISP > user-agreements treat the situation of using a stranger's residential > access point to get onto the internet with/without them knowing? If I, > for example, use a stranger's access point to browse the web am I > violating a particular law or agreement? Is this legal grey area in > the EU and France (that depends on a number or factors)? Or is it more > clearly violating one of the above? > > thanks, > Yury Hi Yuri, we used to have a Madmouselle Joanna Troufaut of (the renamed) paris-sanfil.net that would be a good athority on such things. I recall from her talks that france was very restrictive with wifi access. But that may have gotten less restritive in the last 2 yrs. -Kev -- (__) (oo) /--\/ / ||| * /\---/\ ~~ ~~ "Have you mooed today?"... -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] 100% IPv6 in Korea by 2007
I thought this might interest people the Korean government as of 6/9/2004 under its new "Ubiquitous Korea" initiative, is setting the goal of 100% conversion to IPv6 by 2007. I guess they figure they are going to need IP addresses for all those networked refrigerators... http://www.lge.com/products/homenetwork/internetproduct/refrigerator/introduction.jsp This is the kind of country, too, where industry will do what the government tells it too, since I think there is a high likelihood this will happen on schedule. Anthony Townsend Fulbright Exchange Scholar Seoul Development Institute Research: http://urban.blogs.com/seoul Mobile: 016-619-9665 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
