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to: David Drummond
from: Bob Seaborn
date: 2005-05-25 17:14:00
subject: New Z6C

>
 >BS>>>       Try being serious for once.  I'm not interested
in playing your
 >BS>>> chidish games.
 >
 >>> I am not playing childish games. I am asking how two devices
can present
 >>> the same MAC address and not confuse things?
 >
 >BS>       You are,
 >
 > I was asking an honest question.


      must be the way you phrase your choice of words.

 >
 >BS> and they can't.
 >
 > Therefore my wireless network link here is secure. Thank you.

      partially, remember someone with a more powerful transmitter could
overpower your transmitter.


      Use the following as a guideline:


            "no wireless network is totally secure"


 >
 >>> If MAC filtering is so useless, why do they even build it into the
 >>> wireless devices?
 >
 >BS>       Because most users don't understand the finer aspects of
 > security.
 >
 > It is built in my the wireless device manufacturer, not the user.

      Who don't understand it, much less use it.

 >
 > It seems most users don't even enable it....


      My point exactly.

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