| Phillip Windell 2005-03-31, 6:18 pm |
| "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote in message
news:3QG2e.12698$ZB6.6612@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com...
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> Well Phillip... I also run a wireless network here. And the whole game
> changes!
Wireless does change things, and I have refused to use wireless because I
don't rust it.
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> And with WLAN, they don't need to sit next to you and keep trying
> passwords until their beards grew long. As hackers have software which
> does that for them many times per second.
That really isn't that fast. I tried it on our system here and some of the
passwords took several weeks. The most complex password still hadn't been
cracked even after 3 mouths of leaving the thing sit there running.
quote:
> someone's WLAN. And the winner went to somebody who could at 51 miles
> away. That is just amazing!
That is definitly the longest distance I've heard of. But what they may not
be telling you in those things is that they are connecting to "open"
wireless systems that have no type of encryption. A properly setup
wireless LAN could take months or years to "brute-force" the
encryption,...and even then that only gets you on the LAN, you still have to
crack the user passwords after that to be able to access anything. However,
you could borrow thier Internet bandwith at that point unless they ran a
Proxy Server like maybe ISA where it required user account authentication to
use the Internet.
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>Kevin also talked about people who don't pay for any Internet access
> anymore. As they simply use their directional antenna and steal someone
> else's from a (usually from an open) WLAN.
Yes that is true, but the operative word their is "open" WLAN. If you don't
run it "open" you won't be one of those victems. But like I said, I still,
up to this point do not use any WLANS. I may eventually at home where there
really isn't much there for anyone to steal. But I would fight pretty
strongly against it here at work.
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> great Hollywood movie right there. By the way, ever seen that movie
> called "War Games"? I really liked that one.
Yea, that was really the "first" movie of its type if I remember correctly.
But they were military and I think a grenade or a little c-4 in the WOPR
Room could have solved that real easy. The next movie I like along those
lines was "The Net". It was way over the edge as far as reality, but it was
a great fantasy. An then there was Sandra Bullock too, :-)
--
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com
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