>
 >BS>       Why would anyone in their right mind only depend on MAC
 >BS> filtering for wireless security?  MAC spoofing is so easy to do, and
 >BS> the MAC address is broadcast in cleartext.
 >
 > If one has their wireless router/AP set to only grant specific mac
 > addresses access, then doesnt spoofing prove futile if the mac address
 > listed is already in use and doesnt the spoofer have to know, or do they
 > "war spoof"?


      Like I said, MAC addresses are broadcast in cleartext, so a decent
packet sniffer should be able to grab it.  And who's to say the MAC is
physically active at the moment? Laptop battery couyld be dead, the machine
could have gone into hibernation, and so on.  Heck, even the common
encryption schemes are broken.  Basically WiFi is not as secure as some
would like to think.

--- GEcho/32 & IM 2.50