[ale] wireless sanity/security check

[Matt Rideout]

IMO, if the data on your network is important enough to need more than 
WPA, it's important enough to need more than MAC address filtering as 
well. I'd be willing to bet that most people who would be able to defeat 
WPA wouldn't be stopped by the MAC filter.

On 1/3/10 8:14 PM, Mark Wright wrote:
> I am using a MAC address access list in my router to secure my home 
> network.  I know that you can sniff then spoof  a MAC address but is 
> seems a little overkill to worry about that out here in suburbia. 
>  Especially given no teenagers living within several blocks.
>
> I have advised two friends to do the same as their WPA setups quit 
> working or have been uncooperative to additions.
>
> Do any of you security experts consider this particularly bad advise 
> to give out?  Should I help them get WPA working?  After having played 
> with some of the tools for sniffing and cracking strong passwords I am 
> wondering if it is worth the extra effort.
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> Mark Wright
> m.perry.wright at gmail.com <mailto:m.perry.wright at gmail.com>
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