[ale] kismet

[James P. Kinney III]

You left out:

Cover the entire house in copper foil using a properly made mechanical
joint then a solder joint. Ensure that all openings are smaller than
(less than 1/3) the wavelength of the blocked spectrum or use a tubed
approach with appropriate, well grounded baffles and turns. All windows
should be replaced with video cameras and screens coupled with a
magnetic induction connection.

And make sure the foil beanie cap is worn at all times. 

On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 10:41, Hogg, Russell E wrote:
> 
> -VPN is the best thing 
> -Then use WEP (128)
> -Then MAC filtering
> -Then get rid of DHCP (make em work harder to get an IP)
> -Also you can use the correct antenna to limit your coverage area. 
> Remember that lots of people have better client antennas than you and
> there are 8 watt 2.4 ghz amps out the floating around, but not many
> people have them in their cars.
> 
> -Turn off BROADCAST if you can (some cards wont work without it)
> -Change your SSID to something that doesn't describe you (don't use
> your name or address or anything that could help a "social engineer"
> 
> -make sure you change the default passwords to your AP.
> 
> If you got real security concerns look at the networks security
> appliances from AirDefense.
> 
> 
> 
> Russ
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> __________________________________
> ctcrreho at opm.gov
> 
> 
> -> -----Original Message-----
> -> From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
> -> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 10:34 AM
> -> To: ale at ale.org
> -> Subject: Re: [ale] kimset
> -> 
> -> cfowler wrote:
> -> > A VPN is part of an acceptable solution.  But that only protects
> the
> -> > data in that tunnel.  the #1 problem is that 802.11b allows
> anyone to
> -> > :"plug-in".  Its the same as me dragging a 100' piece of cat-5
> from my
> -> > 100mb switch to the curb at home.  Anyone can plug that in and I
> can
> -> not
> -> > stop them.  What I have to do is secure it and make it difficult
> to
> -> > plug-in so that someone may not be motivated enough to do it.
> -> 
> -> I love this stuff.  I was not aware of that.  Cool.  So, how is
> this
> -> done?  Firewall and such, as well as restricting connectivity via
> Mac?
> -> Do these devices have mac addresses?
> -> 
> -> What else do you do to secure this thing?  (image of cat5 cable
> flopping
> -> around in the front yard....)
> -> 
> -> 
> -> --
> -> Until later: Geoffrey                esoteric at 3times25.net
> -> 
> -> The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
> -> Think about it...
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