Security Exposure: Sniffing

• Risk:

  • Bad guy reading TCP/IP packets you send, including passwords, credit card numbers
  • http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/excerpt/wirlsshacks_chap1

• Solutions:

  • Wireless Encryption Protocol (WEP)
  • MAC filtering
  • Change your SSID and don't broadcast it
  • Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunneling
  • Strong encryption – SSH, https

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