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Cornered! Is the WiMAX security scare a big furphy
Cornered! Is the WiMAX security scare a big furphy | Is the WiMAX security scare a big furphy |
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| Written by Stuart Corner | |
| Monday, 22 January 2007 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Feeling that this was an important issue in need of exploration I asked Eric Hamilton CTO of Unwired Australia, which is gearing up for large scale deployment of mobile WiMAX gear as soon as it's available. His response was that the issue was a complete furphy (my words not his): that WiMAX technology conforming to WiMAX Forum certification is inherently secure and therefore the security issues facing any WiMAX network operator are no more or less than those facing the operator, or user, of any other access network. So what about ABI's comparisons with 802.11? 802.11, says Hamilton, "was obviously a different story but that was several years ago and that experience has been a great teacher." So who's on the level here? Is there a real danger of a rerun of the 802.11 security debacle, or is this an ABI beat-up to help sell an expensive research report? Unwired was initially rather dismissive about ABI's claims, so to better prepare myself for the interview I emailed the press contact on ABI Research's press release. Could their researchers suggest a few questions I might put to Hamilton to pinpoint the issues of concern raised in the report? That was almost a week ago, and I've heard nothing.{moscomment}
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