the other side of wireless security

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Oct 8 15:32:16 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 08:07 -0400, Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) (US SSA)
wrote:
> My apologies if this isn't related... I was working with a friend last
> week, and trying to debug communication issues between her laptop and
> her hosting company's FTP server.  Her wireless network is
> unencrypted, and both her laptop (WinXP)  and mine (F7) were
> "connected".  I could run wireshark on my wireless interface and see
> the traffic from the server to her laptop... but not the traffic from
> the laptop to the server.  (Physically tapping the network, upstream
> from the AP would be my next option)

No worries, that interested me as well.  I don't think I'd ever want to
use un-encrypted wireless, but it's interesting to note that you only
saw the traffic in one direction.

I did get a laptop, I'm playing with it now (working moderately well, if
anyone wants a report on putting Fedora on an Asus PRO31J, sing out and
I'll write a separate message about it).  But I've turned the wireless
off - I don't have any other wireless devices to connect to, and I don't
fancy accidentally connecting to someone else's wireless.  I might pay a
visit to someone with a wireless access point, and play around with it
on purpose, later on.

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