Re: wireless woes:

[kadokev () msg net]

>                       Wireless Vendor Woes and Shame
>                           (c) Ron DuFresne 2002

Plenty of good data (if a bit behind the times), but also some misleading
statements.

Two examples:
 
> off the shelf antenna he purchased that gave him up to a 2.5 mile radius.
> there are other capabilities that can be even more affective then what Mr.
> Clegg demonstrated.  Steven Hume at Novell <shume () novell com>, recently
> noted in one of the security mailing lists:
>
>       Anyone interested in the Pringles antenna :-
>
>       http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448
>
>       Using this they claim they could get 11mbps over 10 miles!

Actually, the Pringles can has long since been debunked.

 
>  Tracing an attacker would require many of the same illegal tools
> used to apprehend Mitnick in Raleigh in February of 1995, a task that
> required months of research and work for the FBI and various law
> enforcement folks across the US during Mitnick's rampage of intrusions of
> the period.  Tsutomu Shimonura working with authorities, relied upon
> illegal, at least then, devices to triangulate and trace Mitnick's
> location to the Hotel within the Raleigh area during the manhunt.

The "illegal tools" were only illegal because they were used to intercept
cell phone traffic. Software and hardware to triangulate 802.11b intruders
would NOT be illegal.

Kevin
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