Re: Wireless Lans give EVERYONE ACCESS

[Jose Nazario <jose () biocserver BIOC cwru edu>]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Shade wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 05:21:08PM -0400, Russell Handorf wrote:

> > 1). Set the MAC Address of the card to 127.0.0.1 and the Netmask to 255.255.0.0

> Can't you get the same results with "ifconfgi wi0 up"?

you do. i sniffed at the luncheon at blackhat with this 'trick' (hardly a
trick), no authentication at all. just listening in receiver mode ...

hardly a novel insight, and in fact the configuration of the device is
unneeded, too many wasted steps. an understanding of the device driver and
how IP, ethernet and wireless networks work would reveal that.

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