On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 08:07 -0400, Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) (US SSA) wrote: > > I've just been looking at possibly getting a laptop (a > maddening > exercise, if there ever was one), and have been playing with a > friend's > for a while, now. One thing I haven't noticed are comments on > the > security of the other side of the wireless connection, your > side. Does > the laptop treat connections made to its wireless interface in > the same > manner as it would a wired connection? Do the encryption > schemes you > might use to connect to an access point work in the same way > in the > reverse direction? I am not sure what you are asking.. For wireless connections the WEP or WPA encryptions work in both directions if you mean between the AP and the local machine. One amusing side note. The new Ubuntu (7.10) (and I am sorry that I am fixated on Ubuntu these days) includes the program aircrack, whose only purpose is to crack the WEP encryption of wireless connections in the neighborhood. Will f8 be as accommodating, that is,include hacking tools in the distribution. -- ======================================================================= We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones. -- La Rouchefoucauld ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
