Comment Re:Wireless 101 (Score 2, Informative) 122
WEP is useless and can be cracked in less than 10 minutes using any laptop made in the last 10 years. Keep on using that WPA though.
MAC filtering is useless because anyone with Kismet can see the active MAC addresses on the network.
SSID hiding is useless because anyone with Kismet can see the active SSIDs around them.
Someone mentioned it earlier, but have a look at this:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/index.php?p=43
MAC filtering is useless because anyone with Kismet can see the active MAC addresses on the network.
SSID hiding is useless because anyone with Kismet can see the active SSIDs around them.
Someone mentioned it earlier, but have a look at this:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/index.php?p=43
