Juha Saarinen wrote:
>
>
> > Saw that, just would rather not have the wireless at all.
>
> > And you'd secure it......how exactly?
> >
> > Run BlackIce on every machine on your LAN?
>
> No... why? I thought the wireless signal was encrypted?

Not exactly, if it's ordinary 802.11 then it will use some kind of frequency
hopping in the 2.4 Ghz band. Either straight sequencing or random.

>
> Oh, you mean that you can't firewall the systems using wireless
> connections? Shouldn't matter too much, provided the MW1122 offers at
> least rudimentary IP management capabilities.
>
Doesn't look any better than the M10/M11 in that regard.

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Received on Thu Sep 7 11:49:50 2000