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Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Sun Sep 22 17:08:22 2002 
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Randy Bush wrote:
>     - the users need to be told how to operate more safely, use
>       end-to-end authentication and privacy, etc.  it's a matter of
>       education.  and the education will stand them in good stead
>       when they use 802.11 at starbucks, airports, etc.  we do this
>       at ietf, but it is not allowed at nanog.

Sunday afternoon is full of tutorials on lots of different subjects.
Has anyone volunteed to conduct a Sunday tutorial on wireless security
for users of "public" wireless networks?

Although I think it is a mistake to think a wireless network security
is different than using any other network you don't control.  Most
wireless security tutorials tend to concentrate on "securing" the
wireless network instead of how to communicate over an untrusted
network.