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AppleMatt
May 19, 2003, 03:46 PM
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/8773/

A well known firms popular wireless product has a fundamental security flaw. They wish to discover the implications to their customers of such a flaw. Discuss.

AppleMatt (Done lots of essays today)


Sun Baked
May 19, 2003, 03:56 PM
:confused:

I don't see anything about weak "Airport Encryption"...

Apple AirPort Base Station Weak Password Encryption -- more specifically administrative password via network connection.
Chimaera
May 19, 2003, 04:04 PM
basically its only a problem if you're dumb enough to try to administer the base station over an open network or non-encrypted wireless connection - IE its only a problem if a malicious user can listen in.
AppleMatt
May 19, 2003, 04:36 PM
Originally posted by Sun Baked
:confused:

I don't see anything about weak "Airport Encryption"...

Apple AirPort Base Station Weak Password Encryption -- more specifically administrative password via network connection.

Yeah I know but I had to grab your attention ;)

AppleMatt
Wardofsky
May 19, 2003, 10:50 PM
Originally posted by AppleMatt
Yeah I know but I had to grab your attention ;)

AppleMatt

You sly MacRumorer you...

kisMAC can crack the code of an AirPort, but you need thousands of weak packets to open up a 128kpb code.
Weak packets can be collected about every 5 minutes meaning why would you bother...