[Novalug] best way to secure wireless?

[Wayne Dernoncourt]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Matt Ahrens wrote:

> In about 30 minutes, a determined individual probably can:

>  - Identify your network with or without SSID broadcasting
>    enabled,
>  - Break WEP, and
>  - Identify and clone a legitimate MAC address for your
>    network

> All this said, it takes a determined individual and you have
> to be the most interesting target on the street.  If your
> neighbor has an open access point, you probably won't receive
> this attention.

Does this include not using the wifi much?  I actually
have two laptops that have WiFi, Fedora Core 4 IBM laptop
and a Mac (experimenting with it, a guy at work keeps
raving about how this is superior to every thing else,
etc.)

> wpa_supplicant w/wpa_gui 
> (http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/) has a GUI which may 
> help you configure WPA networks.  I wouldn't exactly call it 
> linux newbie friendly, but it can be a good resource for 
> configuring Wireless networks.

I did take a look at this a year or so ago and was totally
lost with how the pieces fit together.

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