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News that's changing the Wireless World!
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Tuesday, November 25, 2003 |
Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Gateway to Perdition
Shmoo offers Airsnarf, a proof of concept that a fake gateway page could act as a honeypot for legitimate hotspot users: The existence of Airsnarf, which puts up a fake but realistic looking hotspot gateway page, means that 802.1X authentication could become a viable method of hotspot logins faster than anticipated. As I've written several times recently, while 802.1X clients aren't built in to Windows before XP and Mac OS X before version 10.3, Meetinghouse and Funk have software available that WISPs could license and distribute to users of practically all major platforms, including Linux (kernel 2.4) and Solaris. 802.1X doesn't entirely obviate rogue access points, it does make it much much harder to extract or intercept traffic....
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9:34:41 PM 
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Source: eWEEK Technology News
Wireless Security: The Gaps and How to Fill Them
This special report brings you everything you need to know about securing wireless networks, including strategies for handling the chaotic nature of wireless, how to capitalize on current wireless standards and profiles of technologies that won't kill your budget.<
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7:39:13 PM
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Source: eWEEK Technology News
Verizon Raises Fee to Cover Cellular Mobility Rule Changes
Verizon Wireless plans to charge subscribers more than $173 million per year in extra fees for costs related to new rules that allow customers take their phone numbers to a new service provider—more than double what the nation's largest cellular carrier had said it expected to charge.
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7:39:11 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Europe Expected to Beat U.S.
Insight research expects service revenues from Wi-Fi to grow faster in Europe than in the U.S. : The research firm expects revenues worldwide to grow from $7 billion this year to over $44 billion by 2008. That figure for revenues this year sounds really high to me, given that in this country at least other recent research revealed that only 1 percent of Internet users had paid to use Wi-Fi....
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2:05:57 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
On the Road with Wi-Fi
Truckstop.net, which recently signed a deal with Sprint to build hotspots in truck stops, signed a deal with Pilot Travel Centers. Pilot operates rest stops in 37 states and claims to be the largest "travel plaza network" in the country. Pilot's rest stops will get Wi-Fi aimed at truckers and other folks on the road. The press release isn’t up yet but should be available here eventually....
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2:05:55 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Planet
Switch Software Upgrades Security
Jockeying for position in the increasingly crowded WLAN switch market, Trapeze Networks focuses on security improvements in the latest update to its system software.
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2:05:53 PM
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