Beware - NetworkManager

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Tue Dec 12 02:26:01 UTC 2006


On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Tim wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 14:37 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> on the wireless side, I use MAC address restrictions on the WAP
>
> I hope you're aware that MAC filtering is next to useless.  About all
> it's good for is avoiding *accidental* connections between networks.
> There's no security in it.

Yeah, but I'm not in a high-risk location either and I do have encryption 
and other measures in place.  If I had a need to be really serious about 
wireless security, I'd have a VPN on as well.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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