When decorating don't forget this, to stop wifi hackers

[PickledSquirrel]

What latex on your walls - what is this world coming to.

50 layers or so should provide you with nice soft walls for when space-bunnies comes conduct medical experiments on you again.

-Squirrel

 

[greatdevourer]

Why? Just turn off SSID broadcast and enable WEP with a 128-bit passkey. Saves a lot of time and effort. Maybe turn on the wi-fi firewall while you're at it. Takes less than 1 minute.

And can be cracked in under 10. My personal record is 30 seconds from pressing the "scan" button to getting a key (ok, it was 64-bit, but my 128 record is about 4)

Granted the decryptor for the passkey usually needs to run overnight to get the code, but going to consecutive nights, and you can get hacked

What are you running it on? My Toshiba 133Mhz Satalite Pro?

Yeah, that's what WPA is for - because WEP is fatally flawed. Any script kiddie can hack WEP using easily available tools. That's not exactly news...

WPA can be cracked in the exact same way - it just takes a lot longer (and you need to get hundreds of megabytes of traffic)

How about a MAC filter?

If it's UNIX based, you can spoof your MAC

 

[mkrishnan]

If it's UNIX based, you can spoof your MAC

How difficult is MAC spoofing? In any event, my network, hidden / WPA1/2 / MAC-filtered, should be adequately secure, until I start trading nuclear secrets wirelessly.

 

[Will Cheyney]

Haha!