Re: Best Buy re-activates WLANs (fwd)

["Ryn" <mattyml () daemons net>]

Or stick your laptop in the trunk while you wander about. All you
need is a covert antenna and a long living battery (AC -> DC 
converters can be purchased relatively inexpensively).

Ryan 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Lydick" <lydickaw () hotmail com>
To: <jdyson () treachery net>; <vuln-dev () securityfocus com>
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: Best Buy re-activates WLANs (fwd)


> Note that this profiling of suspicious laptop users is easily avoided by 
> walking around for a few hours with a shiny ipaq in your pocket :) Not only 
> that, but if they send enough wireless traffic, it would allow cracking WEP 
> keys. (This holds true for any wireless deployment, obviously) Unless they 
> are using VPN or sending very little traffic over a WEP encrypted channel, 
> they are still at risk.
>
> Adam
>
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