No WEP or WPA, but MAC. Safe enough?

Hi all!

For certain reasons I currently can not implement neither WAP nor WPA
on the wireless network here.

How safe is a combo of not broadcasting the SSID & MAC-address
checking?


Regards,
Evert

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