On Jan 14, 2006, at 11:41 PM, Amber R. wrote:
I have a D-Link wireless router - there are options to change from
the WEP 128 bit encryption to WPA personal. Would doing this
create enough of a wall for most people trying to hack in ?
Just turning on one of the 2 built-in restrictions will keep 99.999%
of people out of your network. The 0.001% that want in and want to
bother, can get in no matter what.
While I have been trying not to use the wireless router (given
the situation with my neighbour that I mentioned earlier today), I
really need to have access to it here and there as I have a lot of
work to get done and cannot easily do it at my computer desk.
I was thinking I could perhaps create another network name and WPA
and perhaps stay hidden from her brother.
Changing the name of our station will last all of 5 seconds or so
before someone looking will know. Even if you turn off SSID
broadcast (of the "name" of the network) sniffing software will still
be able to see that it is there, and what the name is, if someone
(you) is connected.
WPA is easier to crack than WEP, per the proof-of-concept articles I
just found googling for "WPA crack". I didn't look for software for
cracking WPA but I'm sure it exists, I've read articles about
software for WEP decryption, there are several options.
Turn on WEP, turn on MAC address filter as I mentioned before,
whitelist the MAC ID of your laptop(s) and keep half an eye on your
logs. It is really unlikely they will hack in, and if they do, you
can either ban the MAC ID of anything that does connect, or call
someone about it, or both.
Their breaking in is really not likely to be an issue if you enable
the built-in security options, and if it is, you will see it going on
and can do something at that time.
There's a lot of media hype and not a lot of "there" there, if you
know what I mean.
Put MacStumbler or KisMac on your Mac laptop. Look around when you
are out and about, to get a feel for how this works, and what is
really available and what is not accessible even though you can "see"
it. Look at your own network with one of these softwares to make
sure the setting you think you have enabled, are enabled. A bit of
education and experience and you will worry less about your setup,
and be comfortable with the technology and be able to keep your LAN
useful to you yet sensibly protected.
-B
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