Protecting you wireless networks a bit more against wardrivers

From: Moser Max (MMoserat_private)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 00:34:21 PDT

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    Hi all,
    
    Now its time to release some informations i found during the development
    of the new Wellenreiter decoding engine. 
    
    The ESSID of a wireless network could consist of any chars (not only
    simple ASCII) and should have a length up to 34. So it is possible to
    raise your protection against wardrivers in a very simple way:
     
               -->  Use only non-printable chars in you ESSID <--
    
    That's it. How would you display those in a sniffer tool? In a report?
    :-). I guess most of the wireless scanners have now a real problem :-).
    
    I hope this makes the world a bit better. Don't think now this is a
    "Big" protection,
    plan and implement your networks/protection like wireless is a complete
    open/shared environment is the best protection ever. 
    
    Btw. I still looking for a security job in Switzerland, so if someone
    got a contact for me, please drop me an email.
    
    Greetings Max Moser
    http://www.remote-exploit.org
    Home of the Wellenreiter 
    mmo@remote-exploit.org
    
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