[OpenWireless Tech] Open Wireless encryption

[michi1 at michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com]

Hi!

On 22:47 Mon 12 Aug     , Björn Smedman wrote:
...
> When you connect a new device to your home Wi-Fi router it sends a
> small registration message to a server. The registration message
> contains the MAC address of the device and the IP address of your home
> router, and the server stores this association. You can think of this
> server as sort of a DynDNS server, but with a device MAC as the key.

Well, this solves the scaleability issues, but raises others. First, tracking
the location of users looks very easy, especially for the server operator.
Second it looks very easy to DoS - just attack the server or remap MAC
addresses with different home routers.

	-Michi
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