On 05/17/11 12:23, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Tuesday 17 May 2011 19:47:24 JD wrote: >> On 05/17/11 11:23, Steve Searle wrote: >>> Around 07:16pm on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 (UK time), JD scrawled: >>>> Right. Also, it is not necessarily "neighbours" that are adjacent >>>> you your house or a few houses down. Someone can park a car >>>> not far from your house, and using the type of home-made antenna >>>> James mentioned, they can hack your network. >>>> I would strongly encourage you to use MAC address whitelist. >>> Because someone with the knowhow to make antenna like this and hack your >>> wireless password would have no idea how to spoof mac addresses? >>> >>> Steve >> It just reduces the number of would be hackers to those >> with the knowhow. And the probability that such >> knowledgeable hackers being near your vicinity is much >> less than the casual hackers without such knowledge. >> In network security, even the simplest measures should >> not be dropped just because there are those with the tools >> and the knowhow to hack it. It's like saying No need to lock >> your car because the door can easily be opened by an >> expert carthief. > Oh, come on, it took me cca 20 minutes to go from being an absolute noob to > being able to crack my own network. It requires reading through one web page > and four man pages. > > > From man aireplay-ng: > > -h<smac> > Set source MAC address. > > Read the output of airodump-ng for a MAC address of an already connected > client to find one that is allowed by the access point firewall. How much of an > expert one needs to be to use an option switch in a command? > > Really, people typically have no idea how easy it is to crack a wireless until > they actually try it, at least once. After that, one gets to appreciate what > is really a security measure, and what is the "please don't open me" sign on > the door. > > MAC spoofing is trivial. Even in Windows there is a field to type a desired MAC > somewhere in the network settings... > > Best, :-) > Marko > Too much bluster here. Show us any credible publication that claims wpa2-ps/AES has been easily cracked or even cracked at all. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
