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Protect SSID

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Last Post: April 6, 2006:
  • By Criss_Hyde
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    Hi Reggie (Compughter):

    Yes, hiding the SSID so that customers cannot pick it off a list of networks found to be within range, and making the SSID difficult to type, are both popular and dumb customs. The resulting layered security costs a lot of inconvenience and is virtually worthless. Anyone with a cheap protocol analyzer and a cheap directional antenna knows exactly what SSID is being used and where it is being used.

    Thanks. /criss

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