[Rack] Another rouge AP

Jonathan Lassoff jof at thejof.com
Wed Sep 14 03:06:47 UTC 2011


On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:

> The DLink black AP was setup again. Ben said there was a guy who wanted
> encrypted wifi because he didn't want people hacking his laptop or
> something. Ben asked him to email rack but it sounds like he didn't do
> that. I've removed the AP again and left a very big note asking people
> to please email the rack list before installing anything in the closet.


I find that reasoning rather humorous since anyone on the local network can
intercept others' traffic anyway.

Setting up an AP with encryption for the 802.11 layer affords no extra
protection, IMO.

--j
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