[Cialug] Slightly OT: Interesting wireless networking article

Jeffrey C. Ollie jeff at ocjtech.us
Mon Mar 26 22:57:59 CDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 04:50 +0000, Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> Is MAC address filtering worthwhile then

No.  It's way too easy to fake a MAC address.

>  or is it best to encrypt?

Only if you use WPA (preferably WPA2 if all of your wireless devices
support it).  WEP is completely pointless.

Jeff

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