Finland's Wireless Fast Track Thanks in large measure to mobile handset pacesetter Nokia, this small nation, about the size of Montana with a population of some 5 million people, is where the rest of the world looks for wireless guidance. But so far no one is willing to put it together. Printer friendly version.
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The Register report was just the latest in a series of revelations about the insecurity of 802.11, the technology popularized by Apple with its AirPort products and now supported by every major PC and networking company. Back in February, as I noted here at the time, a group of researchers at the University of California at Berkeley posted a paper detailing a number of flaws in the security protocol built into the 802.11 standard. Earlier this month, a team at the University of Maryland chimed in with an analysis of several more vulnerabilities. Clearly, there's a problem here. 802.11 is one of the new century's coolest developments, but the holes have to be plugged, soon.