On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Daniel Y. Zhang <yozhang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> >From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSID: >> >> "This method is not secure, because every time someone connects to the >> network, the SSID is transmitted in cleartext even if the wireless >> connection is otherwise encrypted. An eavesdropper can passively sniff >> the wireless traffic on that network undetected (with something like >> Kismet), and wait for someone to connect, revealing the SSID." >> >> poc >> >> > > Thanks for your reply! So hidding SSID makes no sense at all. The funny > thing is in my DLINK router, there is a check box to hide the SSID which > seems an illusion to the users that hiding SSID is safer. I alway avoid It keeps people from accidentally connecting to an open access point. In my neighborhood there are plenty of them. If the laptop fails to connect to my own AP I notice it sometimes connects to whatever open AP is available. A deficiency in NM maybe? In any case, hiding the SSID, won't hide your network from a hacker, as pointed out by others finding an a "hidden" AP is trivial but many people are oblivious or just don't mind connecting to someone else's AP. So hiding the SSID isn't a security feature per se but why sniff out a hidden one when there are easier targets that don't bother hiding in the first place and use WEP to boot. Max -- Sleep is not overrated!! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
