Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] ethereal and wireless

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:05:05 -0700

On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 12:58PM, Lehrer, Neil (OIG/OAS) wrote:

i thought that ethereal could not read the 802.1x traffic?
The article doesn't mention 802.1x; if you aren't using WEP, Ethereal (or any other wireless sniffer) could do all of what the article says. (If you *are* using WEP, it's more work, because you first have to crack the encryption - but AirSnort: 

	http://airsnort.shmoo.com/

can, I think, do that.)
The article uses the word "open" many times; many networks probably *are* that easy to sniff (which I think is much of the point of the article).