[mythtv-users] Packet sniffing consumer electronic devices

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jay Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>

> > > Airgap. It is the only way to be sure :-)
> >
> > Most of these devices are equipped with wireless. So the air gap may
> > not help.
> 
> We'll assume that you realize that "air gap" is a term which means "there
> is no logical connection between two networks", and that wifi isn't
> pertinent and that the proper reply I should have made here was just
> 
> "I see what you did, there. :-)"
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jr 'but if that was a troll, you're *really* good' a

It was neither humor, not a troll; Jedi was right and I was, embarassingly, 
wrong.  I wasn't paranoid enough, which is a stance that doesn't happen to
me real often -- just ask any of my friends.  :-}

I hadn't considered "rogue consumer wifi-equipped devices", even though
that was *the topic sentence*.  How silly of me.  

That said, if you sweep your physical space for rouge APs (there are commercial
systems to do this in real time) and make sure your own APs are locked down
(WPA2+TKIP, with frequent key changes, at minimum), then you can reduce the
attack surface past what's practical to attempt to exploit for anything 
except the top 5-nines targetted attacker.

Cheers,
-- jra
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