[Novalug] best way to secure wireless?

[Miles D. Oliver]

   A friend who works at the National Center For Missing and Exploited 
Children tells me that hijacking wireless is a preferred way for 
pedophiles to hide and pass their filth.

  More than 2 years ago a client of mine was blacklisted for spam and they 
could not understand why.  I was able to determine that someone brought in 
an AP and plugged it into the company network without authorization to use 
it. It was of course insecure and a 'roaming spammer' was able to drive 
into the parking lot, shovel over 50,000 email messages across the 
wireless connection overnight and was gone as fast as they came. We then 
had the hassles of getting off the blacklists and the legitimate mail that 
wasn't allowed to be sent.

  Lock down the AP as fast as you can, Don't invite trouble.


On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Garrett Nievin wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, gregory pryzby wrote:
>
>> I guess my question is more philosophical in.... why?
>> 
>> I look at it this way. I have Mac OSX and Linux machines. There is no
>> telnet or broadcasting protocol running.
>> 
>> If someone wants to use my wireless, they are welcome to it.
>> 
>> That said, I did decide to 'hide' the essid, so someone needs to know
>> it to get online.
>> 
>> So, tell me why this is a dumb thing to do.
>
> Greg,
>
> A friend of mine who lives in Arlington left his wireless open and was 
> willing to let anybody use his wireless connection.  This guy Myron 
> Tereshchuk parked outside and used it to send pornographic extortion emails 
> to a company and its associates and customers:
>
> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8991
>
> My friend was immediately subpoenaed as a suspect based on his IP address and 
> you can imagine how interesting his life got for a while.
>
> Cheers,
> Garrett
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  Miles D. Oliver
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