To be fair, the check box approach would have been okay for what he was
(apparently) expecting it to do if the IEEE committee hadn't blown it.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who think they know more about
security than they really do.
Remember, there can be no serious discussion of security without first
having an agreement on what threats you are trying to secure against. Any
discussion of security without a threat model is just noise and hot air.
on 01.8.15 4:28 PM, Juergen Specht at js@nooper.com wrote:
>> I don't know what kind of base station you are referring to but it is
>> very easy to make 802.11b very secure by just checking a few tick
>> boxes, for example on my Airport at home I checked ...
>
> So your whole security concept is based on a checkbox?
> Like this?
>
> [x] make me safe!
>
> Interesting. I have no further questions.
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Eric Hildum
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