Securing WiFi on distance
By UsaydWell you may have read my recent post on Cutting the cords (recommended read), well to add to the topic I read today about adding to the security to WiFi. This seems like a very efficient way too!
Intel is developing a new way to secure WiFi networks.
The new technology aims to locate a WiFi user by timing how long it takes for packets to travel to and from a wireless access point, which could prevent users outside a house or office from accessing a WiFi network indoors.
Precision location technology is one of several key ideas for the next few years that Justin Rattner, Intel senior fellow and director of the company’s Corporate Technology Group, showed off during a keynote presentation on the last day of the Fall Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco Thursday.
The system is a prettey clever one, it basically means that if you go outside the designated area of the where the wireless network is supposed to run, you will be prevented from further access. Personally I can already see a couple of glitches with this. Isn’t the whole idea of WiFi that you can go as far as you might want to go via a Laptop, PDA or even desktop. Okay say that a big company wants to run their network within the building then sure it should be kept that way, but an employee might want to quickly send an email before he leaves the site. Then maybe they’d have a way of having access via a key, but isn’t that back to square one? Okay thats a bit of a prejudice judgement, read the article it explains better 