[WEB4LIB] Re: Wireless

[Blake Carver]

I'll second that security comment:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2681947,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews
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"We found a number of ways to intercept transmissions and discover what the
contents are," says Nikita Borisov, a 23-year-old graduate student at
Berkeley. "We found ways to modify transmissions as they're sent. And we
found ways to access the network even if it's restricted." Borisov, along
with professor David Wagner and recent graduate Ian Goldberg, Friday
published their findings on the Internet.
http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/


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Blake Carver
LISNews.com
http://www.lisnews.com
Librarian and Information Science News


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Pecaut" <pecautm at missouri.edu>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 7:14 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Wireless


> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 06:37:44AM -0700, David Johnson wrote:
> >
> > I would be happy to hear any comments to the NEGATIVE before we at MIT
move
> > to my wireless "fantasy", for most staff computers, maybe in a year or
so.
>
> Security/Privacy is a big problem.  No longer do you need access to a
> computer physically connected to the network.
>
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/565275.asp
>
> -Mark
>
> >
> >
> > David Johnson
> > Library Technology Consultant
> > MIT Libraries.
>