skinnyd writes « Consultants working for the Department of Homeland Security have announced that the Feds view open WiFi as a means of abetting terrorists, and say that they will compel the open wireless operators will have to close off their nets. ‘Homeland Security is putting people in place who will be in a position to say, « If you’re going to get broken into … we’re going to start regulating. »‘ Continuer la lecture de Slashdot | Because Only Terrorists Use 802.11
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ICI – Publicit
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Slashdot | Secure Interaction Design
Pingster writes « Next week, ICICS 2002 will take place in Singapore. Out of 40 papers at the conference, there will be just one paper that looks at human factors. Though many people know that usability problems can render even the strongest security useless, the security community has only recently started paying attention to usability issues. More serious thinking about usability and security is desperately needed. The paper proposes ten interaction design principles. Maybe you’ll find them obvious; maybe you’ll disagree with them entirely. Great! Let’s have a discussion. » Continuer la lecture de Slashdot | Secure Interaction Design
Slashdot | Securing 802.11b with PPPoE ?
no free lunches asks: « After giving up in disgust on layer 2 auth like *EAP/802.1x (which is a nightmare to configure properly and requires expensive access points and bleeding edge – flaky – firmware) I am considering controlling access to my wireless LAN (a small 50-user setup, with only one Linux user – me) using PPPoE, and would like to ask the Slashdot crowd their opinion. » Continuer la lecture de Slashdot | Securing 802.11b with PPPoE ?
Slashdot | WEP Cracking for Mac OS X
Randar the Lava Liza writes « Finally there is a tool to put default Apple AirPort hardware into monitoring mode for wireless security analysis. KisMAC is a variant of Kismet that runs natively on Mac OS X. It requires a special driver to be installed to run the AirPort hardware in monitoring mode, and has built-in WEP cracking tools once enough weak packets have been sniffed. » Continuer la lecture de Slashdot | WEP Cracking for Mac OS X