Re: Cable router working - bafflement

On 2008-09-30 20:32:34 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

Nope, no point really. They're all "security through obscurity" which
never works. Hiding the SSID often makes it tricky for a laptop to
find the wifi, which is just pointless. Whitelisting is too easy to
break, and aggravating when you want to add a new machine. WEP is the
old, crap encryption that WPA/WPA2 replaces.

The only vaguely useful thing you can do is to lock particular MAC addresses (of your Macs) to known hostnames, but that's probably on a different screen.

Just set yourself a decent WPA/WPA2 passcode and you're done.

Yep. Keychain Access.app incidentally has a nice interface for generating strong passwords.

Cheers,

Chris

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