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Re: [PLUG] OT: Large Wireless Network on the Cheap
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Paul wrote:
| Crackers connecting to the access point could attack the clients
| directly through their unencrypted channels. I'm assuming that most
| clients do not have their own firewalls. (Is that a reasonable
| assumption?) The access point would have to restrict access to the VPN
| port only to protect against that. Again, there's that trade-off
| between convenience and security since non-VPN clients would not be able
| to use the network.
But why is this any more of a vulnerability using a VPN vs WPA?
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