[MLB-WIRELESS] MAC security - how good is it?

Andrew Griffiths andrewg at d2.net.au
Mon Feb 10 16:20:48 EST 2003


Nath P wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> I was wondering, how good is mac security by itself with no other security?

Worse than knowing you've got none.

Main reason being all an attacker needs to do is passively monitor the 
network for a mac address and use that.

> thanks,
> Nathan



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