Wireless networks are fast to set up and flexible enough to let workers roam through an office or campus. But "you would not want to trust anything sensitive to today's 802.11b" wireless LAN standard, said Maj. David A. Nash, an . . .
Wireless networks are fast to set up and flexible enough to let workers roam through an office or campus. But "you would not want to trust anything sensitive to today's 802.11b" wireless LAN standard, said Maj. David A. Nash, an electrical engineering and computer sciences instructor for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

The Army has a moratorium on wireless LAN use, said Lt. Col. Daniel Ragsdale, director of the department's information technology and operations center. "They're flushing out a lot of security issues," Ragsdale said. Ragsdale and Nash attended sessions on wireless LAN security at last month's Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas.

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