On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 01:20:10AM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:33, Martin Fluch wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I try to get the WEP encryption (sure, it is not secure but better than > > nothing) on my wireless card (Orinocco Silver) to work at home. No problem > > to use it under Windows, but it doesn't work with Linux. > > > > Not to get too offtopic here, but my view on this is that it's better to > treat a wep encrypted link as if there were no encryption on it, so to > keep myself from being lazy and trusting wep, I have just turned it off. > Most protocols are capable of using encryption these days and otherwise > you can set up a vpn (or ssh port forwarding) quite easily. > > I guess I would rather have a proper sense of insecurity than a false > sense of security. Anyone with me on that or am I just goofy?
I can see it both ways. On the one hand, broken security is no security at all (I believe this is what you are arguing). Therefore setting up said security is a waste of time. On the other hand, I could say "I'm not going to put a lock on the door of this garage because people can pick locks. I'll just put in a screen door with a spring to keep it closed." Here I am less secure than if I had implemented the broken security. Now, my approach to 802.11: I ran it for a while. Partly because I have a cheap prism card and partly because my (old) laptop acts up a lot I have decommissioned my 802.11; I knew it wasn't very secure even with WEP but I gambled that no-one in my neighborhood was smart enough to (ab)use my 802.11. If and when I set it up again, I'd like to use IPSEC, and hopefully better hardware ;-) -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] There's a positive side to non-technical people -- they actually tend to have some grasp of how human psyche works. -- Josip Rodin (on d-devel) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
