I think blocking your SSID would probably thwart your run-of-the-mill kiddie pornographer, however.
--- On Mon, 4/25/11, Richard Kaye <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Richard Kaye <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [NF] Lock down your WI-FI RIGHT NOW! > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, April 25, 2011, 2:12 PM > Hmm... Thanks for that, Paul. I'll do > a bit more research. > > I'm in a very suburban residential environment and not all > that concerned about the local teens war driving through the > neighborhood using packet sniffing software to grab my SSID. > Anyone doing that is also probably clever enough to have > some brute force hack for getting past WPA2 encryption, > which while more robust than WEP isn't exactly unbreakable. > OTOH, I'm paranoid enough to not let the neighbors poach my > bandwidth either. <g> > > -- > rk > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Paul Hill > Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 1:18 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NF] Lock down your WI-FI RIGHT NOW! > > This is all I can find: > > http://www.wikihow.com/Secure-Your-Wireless-Home-Network > 6. Don't disable the 'SSID Broadcast'. Do not disable the > 'SSID Broadcast' feature of your Access Point or router. > This seems counter-intuitive, but it is actually a bad > idea.[3] Although this would make your network invisible to > your neighbors, any determined hacker can still sniff out > your SSID; and you are implicitly forcing your computer to > shout out your SSID anywhere you are, while it is trying to > connect to it. Anyone could then impersonate your router > with that SSID, and get your credentials that way. > > -- > Paul > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
