Comment Re:I would wonder... (Score 1) 146
He doesn't need any security -- there's nothing to secure. The point of his project is to offer full broadband Internet access to anyone who has the equipment to access it. The wireless network behind the access point only contains the Internet gateway, so there's really not much to protect.
Anyhow, if anybody wants to secure a wireless network, it's not that hard. You limit the 802.11 portion to VPN tunnels only and use one of various types of backend authentication methods to allow select users. It is also possible to limit many access points to accept connections from certain MAC addresses. If you start stringing MAC filtering, VPN, backend authentication, backend firewalls, and good server hardening and administration, you have a network that is very, very hard to crack (though certainly not impossible!).
Anyhow, if anybody wants to secure a wireless network, it's not that hard. You limit the 802.11 portion to VPN tunnels only and use one of various types of backend authentication methods to allow select users. It is also possible to limit many access points to accept connections from certain MAC addresses. If you start stringing MAC filtering, VPN, backend authentication, backend firewalls, and good server hardening and administration, you have a network that is very, very hard to crack (though certainly not impossible!).
