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Originally posted by Menthix
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Originally posted by roflmao456
If I disable the SSID broadcast, is it safe to disable the WPA stuff?
No
Disabling WPA means no encryption, which means *everyone* will be able to pick up your traffic from the air and spy on whatever you are doing. It also mean everyone can connect to your accesspoint and abuse your connection.
Disabling SSID broadcast doesn't mean you are invisible, just makes it a tiny bit harder for novice users to notice you.
Always enable WPA(2) encryption on any accesspoint. Don't chicken out on using WEP either as it is as bad as having no encryption. Neither does a MAC filter (without adding encyption) protect you from anything.
That's a new kind of paranoid... 99.9 % of the population have no clue how to even begin sniffing packets... WEP encryption is just fine for home users... And if you are this paranoid, what good will WPA do? Or what good will WPA2-psk do?
In your flow only WPA2 psk-aes is safe...
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