Re: [tlug] WiFi considerations

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

David Santinoli wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 08:50:59PM +0900, Josh Glover wrote:
>> Ain't nothing important unencrypted. I've never really seen a need for
>> WEP or WPA on my network, because everything is SSH and HTTPS.
> 
> However, data encryption - in your case implemented at the application
> layer - is only one aspect of security here.  Another one, not less
> important, is authentication: after the wardriver-of-the-day succeeds in
> associating with your unprotected AP and manages to get an address in
> your LAN, he might not be able to SSH into your server, but he can abuse
> your Internet connection, which might be even more harmful.

Just require login to use your Internet service.  You can do this pretty
easily with openwrt and openvpn.

Edward