[Cialug] Slightly OT: Interesting wireless networking article

[Tim Wilson]

The main reason I heard for hiding the SSID is to keep the casual
visitor off your network.  It won't keep hackers/crackers off your
network, but it'll keep the next door neighbor's kid from downloading
music through your connection.  So based on what you say and what I've
heard, it doesn't hurt to turn off SSID broadcasting, just don't use
it as your primary security.  Would you concur?

On 3/26/07, Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 21:24 -0500, Tim Wilson wrote:
> >
> > I have always heard turning off SSID broadcasting was suggested, but
> > this guy appears to say that turning it off is bad.  What are others
> > thoughts on this?
>
> Turning off SSID broadcasting is completely pointless.  Your SSID is
> contained in each and every wireless packet that you transmit, which is
> easily sniffed with one of many tools available.  Here are a few of the
> tools that I'm aware of:
>
> http://www.aircrack-ng.org/
> http://airsnort.shmoo.com/
> http://www.kismetwireless.net/
>
> Jeff
>
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Tim