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RE: Interlopers on the WLAN
From: "Jim Leo" <admin () everett pitt cc nc us>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 17:09:55 -0500
On 6 Nov 2002, at 15:54, Marcus J. Ranum wrote:
Frank O'Dwyer wrote:If he were doing this over someone's open WLANwhile parked on the street out front, all he'd need to do is drive away and it would be next to impossible to find him.Actually, if you get into the guts of the cards' registers you can often get values such as signal strength from the card. So in theory you could triangulate and locate your war-driver if you had one that was foolish enough to walk into such a trap. I think you could even enhance the accuracy of the system by taking a version of netstumbler and a variety of antennas and generating "registered" signals - just build a map of strengths against known values, and do a table-lookup when you get a war-driver, then call a fire mission on the preregistered location. I don't know of anyone who has done this yet but it seems an obvious enough application... Might make for a fun invited talk for DEFCON. ;)
Been a long time since I've posted to this list.. Just been lurking for an awful long time. In all the traffic I've seen there has been much on the debating on whose at fault, but little about how to mitigate the situation. I would direct your attention to http://www.blackalchemy.to/Projects/fakeap/fake-ap.html as a possible for those who wish to implement a risk mitigation approach to what is currently in essence an unsecurable configuration. Kind of like the old days of making the overhead so high that the 'intruders' go else where.. Just my 2 cents worth. _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- RE: Interlopers on the WLAN, (continued)
- RE: Interlopers on the WLAN Frank O'Dwyer (Nov 06)
- RE: Interlopers on the WLAN Philip J. Koenig (Nov 06)
- RE: Interlopers on the WLAN Frank O'Dwyer (Nov 06)
- RE: Interlopers on the WLAN Philip J. Koenig (Nov 06)
- RE: Interlopers on the WLAN Frank O'Dwyer (Nov 09)
- RE: Interlopers on the WLAN Philip J. Koenig (Nov 09)
- RE: Interlopers on the WLAN Frank O'Dwyer (Nov 09)
- RE: Interlopers on the WLAN Marcus J. Ranum (Nov 06)
- RE: Interlopers on the WLAN Marcus J. Ranum (Nov 06)
- RE: Interlopers on the WLAN Paul Robertson (Nov 06)
- RE: Interlopers on the WLAN Jim Leo (Nov 06)
- RE: Interlopers on the WLAN R. DuFresne (Nov 06)
- Re: Interlopers on the WLAN Kyle R. Hofmann (Nov 05)
- RE: Interlopers on the WLAN Paul Robertson (Nov 05)
- Re: Interlopers on the WLAN Frank O'Dwyer (Nov 09)