Thread: WiMAX is not dead nor doth it sleep (re N810WE)
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2009-10-07 , 22:24
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Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
MAC-based ACLs are kinda senseless, but I agree with your statement that its nice they cannot follow your SIM/IMEI.
I'm registered with XOHM and Clear as a developer, but only so that I can get downloads and participate on their forums. Is anyone on talk.maemo.org familiar with the XOHM, Clear, or Sprint profile managers? As far as I can tell, they must be doing a combination of MAC-based ACLs plus public/private keys via profile manager.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX
is an incredibly thorough Wikipedia entry, but either they don't mention WiMAX security or I don't speak CIS well enough to understand:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX#I..._based_Network

Surely it isn't MAC alone?