[CUWiN-Dev] wireless security interview:

[Paul A. Kennedy]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:36:28AM -0600, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> can anyone do a TV interview for channel 3 on wireless security some time 
> this week? basically, they want to demonstrate that wireless is insecure 
> -- i've convinced them that it would be better to focus on how to make 
> wireless secure and they're interested in getting us on tape.  i think a 
> quick 10-15 minute demonstration of some basic "best practices" is all 
> that would be needed.  anyone?  zach?  pretty much any afternoon should 
> work...
> 
> let me know ASAP so i can confirm with them,

I don't know what the motivation of channel 3 is, but I think that any sort of
comment from CUWiN needs to be very careful in that we don't want channel 3 to
cast the CUWiN work as insecure or harmful or anything like that.

This could work to our advantage in the following way: CUWiN might say
"wireless access points are usually not secured and unless you properly set up
security for your access point you should TURN DOWN THE POWER OF YOUR ACCESS
POINT as much as possible to make it more difficult for people outside your
home from eavesdropping your wireless connection".  

Then a statement about using secure protocols like ssh/https and more technical
stuff about how to secure the access point and everything like that.

Just my $0.02...  and no, I'm not volunteering to represent CUWiN... :)

Paul