The Wi-Fi Experience: Everyone’s Guide to 802.11b Wireless Networking

Chapter 8. Security and Encryption

<feature><title></title>

In this chapter

• Special Wi-Fi Security Issues 114

• Encryption Works Best 116

• Problems with WEP 116

• Some Steps to Take 118

• The Problem with People 119

• Password Protection Flaws 119

• Social Engineering 120

• Snorters, Sniffers, and Peekers 120

• The VPN Solution 121

• Setting Up Your Virtual Private Network 123

• Using Firewalls and Intrusion Detection 130

</feature>

No security system is impermeable. The goal of computer security is to allow you, and others who have permission and can be trusted, to get through the security wall, while also keeping unauthorized people out.

However, simply because you can permeate it, the wall is, by definition, permeable. If intruders can figure out the steps you take to get ...