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I'm new to wireless networks and the reason why is because I see a
real lack of true security in the technology. Though many
improvements have been introduced and realized, there still seems to
be acknowledged security holes in wireless networks by most
professionals in the industry. The MAC address filtering I thought or
appeared to be the best way of locking out hackers from access to an
AP. But I've learned in this past week that MAC filtering provides
little or no security according to most. So why isn't something
similar to MAC filtering used? Instead of filtering why not have an
authentication method involved there. In such a way where the MAC
address or something like it doesn't get passed between the client(s)
and host AP. And make this authentication a one time thing where
something like a encrypted code is generated from the AP and passed to
the client. Sort of in the way product license keys works in
software.
I'm new to wireless networks and the reason why is because I see a
real lack of true security in the technology. Though many
improvements have been introduced and realized, there still seems to
be acknowledged security holes in wireless networks by most
professionals in the industry. The MAC address filtering I thought or
appeared to be the best way of locking out hackers from access to an
AP. But I've learned in this past week that MAC filtering provides
little or no security according to most. So why isn't something
similar to MAC filtering used? Instead of filtering why not have an
authentication method involved there. In such a way where the MAC
address or something like it doesn't get passed between the client(s)
and host AP. And make this authentication a one time thing where
something like a encrypted code is generated from the AP and passed to
the client. Sort of in the way product license keys works in
software.
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