[Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost

[Matt Wehland]

On Wednesday 23 January 2008 10:34, Drew Rogge wrote:
> I think you can also use MAC address filtering. This allows you
> to allow connections only from those machines who's hardware
> ethernet address is registered with the router.

It is absolutely trivial to spoof MAC address's.
In minutes I can set up one machine to spoof the MAC's of any number of 
machines, appearing to be a whole network.
This option should not even be allowed, as it provides a false sense of 
security.
It's not even as good as locking a screen door.

Matt Wehland