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Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings
From: Richard Welty <rwelty () averillpark net>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:47:06 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:52:41 +0100 Simon Lockhart <simonl () rd bbc co uk> wrote:
Someone sat in the hotel lobby with a powerful laptop isn't going to cause anyone to look twice, at a NANOG conference.
ok, i think we need to talk about the actual threats at a nanog conference. 1) some otherwise harmless person gets free internet access for a couple of days. BFD. 2) some hacker uses free, untraceable access to do something nasty. hmmm. 3) some attendee gets hacked because they have security problems with their laptop. sounds like a personal problem to me. 4) some spammer parks nearby and sends out a lot of spam. so block port 25 outbound, don't offer mail servers, anyone who wants to send email can bloody well tunnel back to their home systems using ssh or ipsec. are there others i've missed? do we really care about anything other than 2, as the others have remedies or are else apparently unimportant? turning up WEP would keep the riffraff out. is that actually necessary or important? richard -- Richard Welty rwelty () averillpark net Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security
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- Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings, (continued)
- Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings Vadim Antonov (Sep 23)
- Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings Kurt Erik Lindqvist (Sep 24)
- Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings Sean Donelan (Sep 22)
- Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings John M. Brown (Sep 22)
- Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings Dave Crocker (Sep 22)
- Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings alex (Sep 23)
- Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings Petri Helenius (Sep 23)
- Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings alex (Sep 23)
- Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings Simon Lockhart (Sep 23)
- Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings alex (Sep 23)
- Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings Richard Welty (Sep 23)
- Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings Mike Harrison (Sep 23)
- Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings alex (Sep 23)
- Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings mike harrison (Sep 23)
- Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings Chris Adams (Sep 23)
- RatHole: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings Al Rowland (Sep 23)
- Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings Mike Harrison (Sep 21)
- Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings Kevin Oberman (Sep 21)
- Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings Martin J. Levy (Sep 21)
- Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings Sean Donelan (Sep 21)
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