tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6690994337395244641.post8797265478347343704..comments2022-03-30T14:14:56.448-05:00Comments on Paul Melson's Blog: Rogue Wireless Access PointsPaulMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530533566781746778noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6690994337395244641.post-12736862071247601202007-09-05T07:26:00.000-05:002007-09-05T07:26:00.000-05:00Good to see GVSU is being proactive.Too funny, for...Good to see GVSU is being proactive.<BR/><BR/>Too funny, for me the wayback machine goes back to a dumb terminal with about a 7" diagonal screen (amber, not green) in the dorm basement connecting to a Digital PDP-11. There were some early Macs in the lab, but those were for the business majors and the creative types. I think they were afraid the CS majors would get used to pretty pictures on the screen...Doug Nibbelinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01572317625118995604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6690994337395244641.post-13039150198617620622007-09-04T15:28:00.000-05:002007-09-04T15:28:00.000-05:00I think that most colleges & universities have seg...I think that most colleges & universities have segmented residential networks from academic networks from admin networks. It wasn't that way back when I was a freshman, but my dorm only had 19.2K serial to a Xylogics Annex. Ethernet was only in labs and data centers. And Microsoft wasn't shipping an IP stack. And there were still woolly mammoths roaming the UP. :-)<BR/><BR/>Anyway, that doesn't mean that area colleges aren't spending money fighting rogue wireless networks, though:<BR/><BR/>http://www.airwave.com/docs/case_studies/GrandValley-CS.pdf<BR/><BR/>And yeah, K-12 and .edu are unique security environments. No place else that I know of are you tasked with providing network resources to kids that would just as soon hack your servers as type up their book reports. <BR/><BR/>And if you've got homebrew and are sharing, lay it on me, man!PaulMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02530533566781746778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6690994337395244641.post-62534842045206335372007-09-04T12:10:00.000-05:002007-09-04T12:10:00.000-05:00Thanks much for the advice. I intend to make regul...Thanks much for the advice. I intend to make regular wireless auditing part of the monthly IT plan. I heard from someone in IT at an area college that this is pretty much part of the chaos every year about this time, but I am guessing that their network is already segmented enough that this sort of thing doesn't affect very many people.<BR/><BR/>I can appreciate your point about the issues that schools face, I am guessing the high school/college age group can at times make corporate IT seem fairly sedate in comparison. Both in good ways and bad.<BR/><BR/>On a side note, I have a batch of Red Ale about to start fermenting. I believe good free advice is best rewarded with beer...Doug Nibbelinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01572317625118995604noreply@blogger.com