On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 10:14 -0400, Daniel Y. Zhang wrote: > 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 hidding SSID is > safer. Somewhere along the line some dingbat thought hiding it was a security measure, and started a cargo cult mentality. Monkey see, monkey do... > I alway avoid using wireless connection for important online > transactions such as banking, ecommerce etc. I do it on my wired > machines. Similarly, I distrust wireless networking. I've not read of WPA being cracked yet, but I'm sure it's on the cards. Though it's far from being the only risky sort of networking. e.g. Users on cable internet commonly will share a WAN between houses on the same street. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.15-80.fc7 i686 i386 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
