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Dispelling the Myth of Wireless Security (O'ReillyNet)

Dispelling the Myth of Wireless Security (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Aug 16, 2003 2:32 UTC (Sat) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339)
In reply to: Dispelling the Myth of Wireless Security (O'ReillyNet) by pglennon
Parent article: Dispelling the Myth of Wireless Security (O'ReillyNet)

I agree. I usually use Orinoco-style cards: promiscous mode, MAC-address changable on the fly... no regedit hacking necessary on Windows.

In fact, I just got a new Dell laptop today and (checking) the "Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Properties" Advanced tab has an option to set the "Locally Administered MAC Address". It uses a Broadcom BCM4306 / BCM2050 chipset...

Not hard at all.


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