Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
On 10 Jan 2006 at 16:05, Rob Sharp wrote:
Most Wireless devices support WEP encryption. If you enabled this on
WEP is dead, don't waste your time. I've posted several times on this list
on how easy wep is to crack with links to howto's. With a couple of wifi
laptops and the auditor cdrom, wep keys can be cracked in 3 minutes to 1
hour.
Enabling basic encryption is a start. While it can be broken quickly,
that takes this service 'stealing' to another level whereby they have
actively broken the encryption to use the service.
I suppose the question is 'Has the original poster asked the neighbour
to stop using their network?'
MAC Address lockdown would also work fine in this situation. MAC
addresses _can_ be spoofed, but unless your neighbour is knowledgeable
in this area I would suggest that it is beyond them.
Nonsense, the mac address is sent in the clear with every packet, all he
needs to do is run ethereal. That doesn't take much skill at all.
Thanks Harondel, I didnt realise it was as easy as that to capture the
MAC. Is it also as easy to spoof a captures MAC address? Again, doing
seomthing like this would prove the person is intending to steal the
service, rather than just using an open network. Might that be something
the police would be interested in?
Rob
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