I noticed in one my classes I walked by someone with a Dell laptop and I saw he is running ethereal packet sniffer on the wireless network. Is there something I do to protect myself? I do have a shell I could use to ssh tunnel which is what I do to get on aim,msn etc since it is blocked. So I would just plug that into the socks 5 proxy in the network settings and all traffic would be encrypted right? I remember hearing dns requests would not be encrypted and there is some setting in Firefox's about:config that routes DNS through your proxy as well.
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Packet Sniffing Protection
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AFAIK - no
The only way to keep from having trouble from sniffers is to disable the radio signal which then completely shuts down the wireless network as a whole.
All he's doing is detecting the wireless signal/radio frequency which can be harmless depending on how locked down the wireless network is.
If it's locked down good...sniffing does nothing. If it's wide open...then sniffing is trouble.
The only way to keep from having trouble from sniffers is to disable the radio signal which then completely shuts down the wireless network as a whole.
All he's doing is detecting the wireless signal/radio frequency which can be harmless depending on how locked down the wireless network is.
If it's locked down good...sniffing does nothing. If it's wide open...then sniffing is trouble.