Actually it's management I need to educate. They have several offices throughout several buildings in a corporate park. They were paying a local telco a fortune to ride their network between the various buildings. It iused a number of circuits for redundancy all of which incurred monthly circuit fees, plus equipment. I set up several line of sight wireless links between buildings using boosters and Yagi antennas. All equipment was purchased outright.
In addition, I setup several hotspots for visiting employees. The business has hundreds of work at home and field service employees. Again they saved a considerable amount by allowing ermployees toi w3ork at home and not have to provide special accomodations when the employees are required to work on site (average 3-4 times a month)
After saving all this money... You would think they would be willing to spend a few dollars tom beef up security... Nope. Some "expert" told themn all they needed was to set up MAC address filtering on the hotspots and their worries woiuld be over. Moreover he stated that the Government used MAC filtering ton secure there networks. Well I check with my son, who is in an army specialm forces unit and is often used to do some coputer work in the field (he used to work for me when he was a teen and made the mistake of telling his superiors he knew something about IT). He did confirm that they do indeed use MAC filtering, as well as several other safeguards. After researching I found several methods to discover and spoof MAC addresses. After dislosing this to mmanagerment, they decided thta the risk was minimal, anyway... How did they get to be in charge?
I have a BackTrack Live R5 CD. It seems to take a while to produce. IOt may be me but I have had limited success with it. I may be wrong but it seems like the Pineapple will produce quicker results with less effort. Again I am just stating what I think i understand.
In any event. i think I will be ordering a Pineapple, at least to teach myself. It would be fun to write my bosses password on a piece of paper and hand it to him... One way to make a case for more security dollars in the budget.