Re: Wireless security

From: Alun Jones (alun_at_texis.invalid)
Date: 10/12/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:34:32 -0700

<david20@alpha2.mdx.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:dij168$166$1@news.mdx.ac.uk...
> In article <nrupk1ldt59lujvf74uksd8ek3hckunapv@4ax.com>, Dave Hazelwood
> <the_big_kahuna@mailcity.com> writes:
>>
>>you broadcast your ssid ?
>
> Not broadcasting your ssid provides minimal protection. It's about as
> useful
> as MAC filtering.

Yeah, it's really rather like saying "you tell everyone your car's
registration number?" - whether you do or don't, it's printed in large type
on the car itself. If you use that as the only key for getting into the
car, it'll be stolen.

[Again with the car analogies, I know. If car analogies worked for
software, we'd be talking about how to protect convertibles against nuclear
weaponry wielded by the local juvenile delinquents.]

Alun.
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