Re: TOTAL WIRELESS SECURITY

[George Capehart <gwc () capehassoc com>]

Rob Shein wrote:
> Depends...if these areas are small and surrounded by places where cell
> phones/pagers/etc flourish, there's just about no way. You're also going
> to have a problem with cellular detection in that only law enforcement
> is allowed to have devices that scan on those frequencies.  A better bet
> might merely be jamming them all, but that is also illegal under FCC
> regulations.

Faraday cages and Tempest shields aren't.  Most institutions that I know
of that are serious about that solve the problem by RF-proofing the
areas they want to protect.  Try using a cell phone or pager in some
sensitive areas of some of the larger banks . . .  ;-)

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bartholomew Simpson [mailto:focusyne () yahoo com]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 3:29 PM
> > To: vuln-dev () securityfocus com
> > Subject: TOTAL WIRELESS SECURITY
> >
> >
> > Greetings!
> >
> > I have several areas were no wireless communications
> > are allowed cell phones, wireless PDAs, text pagers,
> > 802.11x, etc.  I frequently monitor these areas using
> > NetStumbler but that will only catch 802.11x traffic.
> > How do I detect the rest of the wireless traffic?
> > Thanks!
> >
> > BS
> >
> >
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