[Noisebridge-discuss] Secure and / or powerful (non-RFC compliant) wireless routers? :)

[Ben Kochie]

I think you forgot to reply to -discuss.

+1 for the Ubiquity gear.  http://www.ubnt.com/unifi#appro

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Davidfine <d at vidfine.com> wrote:
> Seriously, you could do some crazy network level authentication, but you're
> better off assuming the AP is hostile and tunneling everything through
> openVpn. I like the pfsense platform, but bsd has shit for 802.11N support.
>
> brick walls absorb signal. you can get very powerful ubiquiti gear, I have
> some mini pci cards to sell. But at some point it won't help. I'd sooner run
> ethernet between rooms and put weak APs all over.
> -D
> ==
> warning: This message was written in the past and may no longer represent
> our best understanding of reality.
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> Ben Kochie <superq at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Securing wifi networks is useless.  Just run an open network and
>> secure your hosts.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Kristian Erik Hermansen
>> <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Moin Moin,
>> >
>> > Do any of y'all have some recommendations for secure and powerful
>> > wireless home routers? The problem with most home routers today is
>> > that the firmware has numerous security issues, of course. Also, they
>> > are all RFC compliant and have poor usage indoors where many rooms or
>> > long distances are a problem. Any thoughts on security hardened wifi
>> > home routers or any sub-$100 routers that can handle transfer through
>> > numerous brick wall rooms? What do NSA employees use at their home,
>> > etc, as approved by NSA standards. Probably NOT a Linksys home router,
>> > eh?
>> >
>> > Anywa!
>>  y, I
>> would prefer NOT to roll my own on top of tomato, dd-wrt,
>>
>> > openwrt, etc as I have done in the past. Those firmware binaries are
>> > flaky at times and also there is some question as to security.
>> > Thoughts??? :)
>> > --
>> > Kristian Erik Hermansen
>> > https://profiles.google.com/kristian.hermansen
>> >
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