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by alotalota

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I have read some interesting articles about hackers using Lans and WiFi systems to access the internet. Also at a recent wireless tech seminar I learned that many radio towers are used to track assets in company work areas. A couple of ideas came to mind: 1 - how secure are radio towers used in LANs? 2 - can radio towers be geocoded and used to network with local and community GIS systems?

The second question is of more interest to me. URISA - Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, a non-profit which helps communities and business improve information systems, espeically in the area of GIS, urisa.org, has developed awards for applications the development of IT and GIS systems. I checked their web page for specific articles on geo-codeing radio towers for use with urban/regional GIS. I found a very interesting article on a Canadian utility which did this with great success.

Now the first part of the question, how to make sensitive information secure on such systems while allowing access to a networked system by others outside the system. Any ideas? Any ready solutions?

Thanks

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by radioflyer

I hope that I did understand the question correctly. I assume you would like to make
a system safe but still accessible by the public ?

Grouping the information is based on the application behing. The beauty of having the layers below take care of the authentication is impossible. You need security tokens for the group that has higher rights.

I think it is better to run 2 parallel segnents. One open and the other secured with all you have.

Be sure that if it is obvious that there is aclosed area besides an open that some people will start hacking.... if only they can play

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