Subject: Re: Initial stab at QT based wifi browser. Comments?
To: None <> From: Martijn van Buul <> List: tech-kern Date:
04/19/2006 08:32:17 It occurred to me that Lubomir Sedlacik
wrote in gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel:  > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006
at 05:38:28PM +0000, Martijn van Buul wrote: >> If you want to
have useful roaming support, I think you'd need to have >> a
background daemon connecting to whatever network it "knows". I
kind >> of like that feature from (excusez-moi le mot) Windows
XP.=20 > are we talking about the same (mis)feature as described
in > ?  Yes. And it's not a misfeature merely because Windows
just happens to have it. The securityfocus article merely sums
up the risk of using unencrypted networks, and using *only* the
network name for authentication[1]. But really, if you're using
an unencrypted network, you have more possible security issues.
Wireless networks are a certain security risk. Period.   [1]
It's a bit peculiar to see how most APs do MAC address filtering
to     prevent rogu