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News that's changing the Wireless World!
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Tuesday, November 04, 2003 |
Source: Wi-Fi Planet
Switch Vendor Builds in Encryption Chip
Wireless switch and 'thinAP' products from Legra are now available and the company has added an embedded crypto-chip devoted to encrypting and decrypting multiple streams of traffic.
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10:20:35 AM 
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
WPA's Achilles Foot
WPA has a gaping hole in its interface implementation for key choice: Watch for a full report later today on what I hope will spur the industry into fixing a massive security hole in WPA related to front-end implementation. I'll have a paper from a security expert and some non-technical translation that shows how while WPA's fundamentals remain intact, the choice of TKIP keys could render it as susceptible as WEP to cracking. Yes, I'm teasing you all. Check back later today for more....
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10:20:34 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Positioning Free Wi-Fi for Maximum PR
In a routine new-store article, free Wi-Fi gets play: It's a news event in this New Hampshire town when a 5,400-square-foot Panera opens, partly because it represents a success for a local franchisee expanding operations. But note that the free Wi-Fi gets a couple of grafs. The cost of a couple of grafs that bring more people in to a Panera initially and as permanent lifetime customers is probably tens of thousands of dollars. The cost of free Wi-Fi? Hundreds....
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10:20:33 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Broadcom Allowed to Say Microsoft in Announcement
There's a careful dance done between mammoth partners and small companies as to when you can speak their name in a press release: Broadcom received the go ahead, as you can see, to state that Microsoft's new 802.11g home wireless products will use their chips. This was known for a while, but this is the first public announcement, and should be yet another boost for Broadcom. Microsoft's products, which I haven't had the chance to use in their previous or new incarnation yet, have the unique and much-praised distinction of encouraging users to turn on security and actually facilitating distributing the key (using a floppy disk, but, hey, whatever works) among computers on the network....
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10:20:32 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
A Rogue By Any Other Name Still Stinks
A rogue access point on a company that takes its wireless LAN security seriously still painful to detect: You can see how even with a strong set of policies, it's easy for an employee to subvert them. You might understand now why some companies have strict bag searches for employees entering and leaving the building. Those of you who saw the Al Pacino movie The Recruit will remember that one of the most plausible technology plot points involved a hidden USB hard drive. (Of course, CIA computers probably have their USB drives sealed and USB drivers set to restrict access, but you never know.) One of the factors that makes rogue wireless access points difficult to cope with is that local wired networks are often security free. This is changing, of course, with the rise of VLANs and secure fileserver mounting. The Recruit 2: Revenge of the Nerds will obviously feature someone with a micro-Wi-Fi-antenna....
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10:20:31 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Put a Hotspot Search on Your Page
Like what you see at left? You can have it, too: The JIWIRE hotspot locator can be added in one of two dimensions to your page by following the link....
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10:20:29 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Longer Report on Apple's WPA Support
My full-length coverage in TidBITS on Apple's WPA update: In this longer article, I provide more details and more of the limitations of Apple's initial foray in Wi-Fi Protected Access. Sources say that AirPort Card support isn't too far in the future, while AirPort Base Station support isn't going to happen at all....
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10:20:28 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Men and Their Toys
His wife is giving birth and he's posting pictures via the Wi-Fi network: "Push, honey, push! Push that file to the FTP server!" [via BoingBoing]...
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10:20:25 AM
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