Re: Secure and unsecure install problem

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 15:33 -0800, Morgan Davis wrote:
> You're sending unencrypted traffic to the internet?
> 
> The goal of WEP here is to prevent the guests from sniffing the
> traffic between machines on the office network and to prevent them
> from directly accessing/attacking them by preventing them from
> associating.
> 
> Anything you send out to the internet is already insecure and subject
> to sniffing/spoofing. I personally make sure anything I care about is
> encrypted at the network, transport or application layer (POP3/S,
> SMTP/S, S/MIME, SSL, SSH, IPSec). My general web browsing isn't all
> that interesting nor sensitive.

  I was merely offering a relatively cheap solution to close an obvious
attack vector. I have no information on the type of traffic going over
this network, nor the education of the users and their knowledge of
encryption best practices. There was an obvious hole, to which I offered
a method of closure. 

-Ken

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