Well I guess you are right about that. This is like product liability or
something. At the consumer level. I have not read all the small print
disclaimers from DLink, Netgear or Linksys but I am sure they got themselves
covered in any case. I don't think consumers think they are vulnerable at
this level. I don't think it is to easy to disseminate basic security at
that level. Most people may not be dumb enough to transmit secure data over
a wireless connection but probably some people will do so. Still it would
seem like a lot to go through for a hacker to pick on some dumb user. There
are to many bigger fish. They just carry bigger penalties and risk.----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Outmesguine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 3:50 PM Subject: RE: [SOCALWUG] The Feds can own your WLAN too > Not "everyone" knows that. Some of us do... certainly those of us in the > Wi-Fi community. But most internet users do not know anything about > wireless security, be it WEP, WPA, IPSEC, ABCDEFG, or anything. These are > the real plug-and-play people. > > What this article and demo is pointing out is that WEP is so fluid, that > it's not really safe for anything except a speedbump in the parking lot of > wireless intrusion. The more people know that, one would hope, the less > crimes of convenience there will be. > > But in 4 years of Wi-Fi data, we still are seeing only about one-third of > wireless networks are using any security. So for you top-tier, 98th > percentile folks who know how to lock down a Wi-fi network, there's still a > need for you. > > -Mike > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Thomas Maguire > Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 3:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SOCALWUG] The Feds can own your WLAN too > > > But like WEP is a useless protocol; everyone knows that? > That has been known forever. > ???? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Outmesguine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 3:08 PM > Subject: [SOCALWUG] The Feds can own your WLAN too > > > > [Los Angeles FBI agents attend SOCALWUG meetings to stay on top of what's > > really going on in the wireless space. It's great to see their wireless > > experience carrying over to the general IT security community. -Mike O.] > > > > > > From slashdot: > > http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/05/1428250 > > Feds Hack Wireless Network in 3 Minutes > > Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 05, @12:26PM > > from the still-can't-balance-budget dept. > > > > xs3 writes "At a recent ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) > > meeting in Los Angeles, a team of FBI agents demonstrated current > > WEP-cracking techniques and broke a 128 bit WEP key in about three > minutes. > > Special Agent Geoff Bickers ran the Powerpoint presentation and explained > > the attack, while the other agents (who did not want to be named or > > photographed) did the dirty work of sniffing wireless traffic and breaking > > the WEP keys. This article will be a general overview of the procedures > used > > by the FBI team." > > > > > > Here's the Tom's Hardware article by Humphrey Cheung: > > http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article111.php > > > > > > >
