In Through The Out Door

On
Security
Mad as hell, switching
to Mac
ByÊWinn Schwartau,ÊNetwork
World,Ê05/23/05
This is my first column written on a Mac - ever. Maybe
I should have done it a long time ago, but I never said I was smart, just
obstinate. I was a PC bigot. But now, I’ve had it. I’m mad as hell and I’m not
going to take it anymore.

[Source: 802.11b Networking News http://wifinetnews.com/] eWeekreports that WPA2 support under Windows XP SP2 lacks 802.1X supplicant upgrade: Microsoft’s WPA2 support should probably have included the four mandatory supplicant secured EAP types required under Wi-Fi Alliance certification standards for WPA2. I say probably because the new secured EAP types were added after the WPA2 certification standard was initially set. What this means in practical terms is that you cannot use 802.1X with anything but EAP-TLS with Microsoft’s native supplicant. You’ll need third-party software. Microsoft’s WPA2 update boils down to just WPA2-PSK(Preshared Key) support for networks that really don’t need CCMP keys using AES if they’re just going to all share the same key!…

[Source: CNET News.com (20 stories) http://news.com.com/] Thirteen federal agencies are moving toward RFID, but without weighing the privacy risks first.