Comment Re:how would it work? (Score 1) 112
Basically, you can find our planning so far
<A HREF="http://www.seattlewireless.net"> here </A> ifn' you were too quick to read the story, follow links etc. Granted that's only for the Seattle one, but there's links to the others too.
I'd really like to see this guy with the sniffer. It hinges on a lot of different things.
1) That's there's more people using 802.11 than I actually thought.
2) That the users went out of their way to subvert the basic encryption features on 802.11 cards.
Neither one of these would surprise me, but I can't really see it being to the point where it would actually pay back the time spent cruising around the city looking for it. Then again, if you have nothing better to do.... :-).
Just because it's wireless doesn't mean you have to throw security out the window. Can you give me a good reason why FreesWan wouldn't work just because it's going over an 802.11 connection instead of a land line? Plus, with recent releases of PGPNet, you don't have to worry as much about which OS you're using to connect to the FreesWan servers in the first place.
I think at the first meeting of Seattle Wireless it was expressed best, "If we get it to work, great. If we don't get it to work, still cool, cause we got to learn a lot of new things, meet new people interested in this, and drink some beer." I'll let other people argue whether or not that beer was free. :-)
<A HREF="http://www.seattlewireless.net"> here </A> ifn' you were too quick to read the story, follow links etc. Granted that's only for the Seattle one, but there's links to the others too.
I'd really like to see this guy with the sniffer. It hinges on a lot of different things.
1) That's there's more people using 802.11 than I actually thought.
2) That the users went out of their way to subvert the basic encryption features on 802.11 cards.
Neither one of these would surprise me, but I can't really see it being to the point where it would actually pay back the time spent cruising around the city looking for it. Then again, if you have nothing better to do....
Just because it's wireless doesn't mean you have to throw security out the window. Can you give me a good reason why FreesWan wouldn't work just because it's going over an 802.11 connection instead of a land line? Plus, with recent releases of PGPNet, you don't have to worry as much about which OS you're using to connect to the FreesWan servers in the first place.
I think at the first meeting of Seattle Wireless it was expressed best, "If we get it to work, great. If we don't get it to work, still cool, cause we got to learn a lot of new things, meet new people interested in this, and drink some beer." I'll let other people argue whether or not that beer was free.
