| Rich Freeman on 14 Jul 2011 06:08:56 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] personal WiFi security: Stopping the barbarians at the gates |
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Floyd Johnson <fljohnson3@isp.com> wrote: > (2) One should restrict the set of machines to which access to the > personal WLAN is granted, based on the MAC address in the network > hardware of said machines. I've always been annoyed by this provision which seems to get so much traction? If somebody is able to break your WPA2 protection, is spoofing a MAC going to be anything more than a trivial obstacle? I could see the paranoid running VPN over the link, but MAC filtering? Rich ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug