[ale] wpa_supplicant on hidden SSIDs

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Thu Sep 26 12:43:51 EDT 2013


They don't even need to be determined, it is so easy to do --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_cloaking

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
> I know it could be discovered by a determined person, it was more about
> obscurity than anything else.  Let people aim for the "2WIREnnn" SSIDs
> floating around the area and skip over the blank one.  I've got MAC
> filters on there, too (still not perfect but better) so I'll just leave
> it up for a little while.  If I end up not using the wireless much I may
> just hide the SSID again.



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