[ale] wireless sanity/security check

[George Allen]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> On 01/03/2010 08:14 PM, Mark Wright wrote:
>> I am using a MAC address access list in my router to secure my home
>> network.  I know that you can sniff then spoof  a MAC address but is
>> seems a little overkill to worry about that out here in suburbia.
>>  Especially given no teenagers living within several blocks.
>>
>> I have advised two friends to do the same as their WPA setups quit
>> working or have been uncooperative to additions.
>>
>> Do any of you security experts consider this particularly bad advise to
>> give out?  Should I help them get WPA working?  After having played with
>> some of the tools for sniffing and cracking strong passwords I am
>> wondering if it is worth the extra effort.
>
> Do you lock your doors at night, or do you think "there are people with
> tools that can break some locks, so why bother?"
>
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> Brian Pitts
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Well... my roommates decided to repaint our front door one day, and in
doing so did not put the lock back together for about a week. Place
was wide open... except for one very large pit/german shepard and one
slightly large pit/boxer.

Defense-in-Depth is probably always a good strategy.