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Message from discussion How to provide "free" wifi in a secure way

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Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:58:00 +0800
From: Chow Loong Jin <hyper...@gmail.com>
Organization: Nanyang Technological University
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Subject: Re: [HackerspaceSG] How to provide "free" wifi in a secure way
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On 05/10/2011 00:41, Patrick Haller wrote:
> On 2011-10-04 23:13, Martin wrote:
>>    Naturally they want to provide their students with free wi-fi acces=
s.
>=20
> I like one-time MAC registration for this. Can either be purchased,
> self-automated, or make the kids show up with laptops and IDs in tow.

It's fairly easy to spoof MAC addresses though. If you truly wanted it to=
 be
secure, you would probably be better off with WPA2-enterprise. Then you g=
et
encryption, and username/password authentication.

--=20
Kind regards,
Loong Jin


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