[OT] Richmond's DNS disease, was: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6 DP1

[Bob Sneidar]

To Mark’s point, turning off SSID broadcasting is really only to keep the less-than-adept from jumping on your wireless. It really does nothing these days to secure your wireless. Neither does Mac Address Filtering by the way. Tools exist that can mimic your Mac Address, which can be discerned by motoring the radio traffic between your wireless and your connected devices. This is how wireless man in the middle attacks are achieved. This is also why they came up with WPA2. Seems disrupting the traffic between a wireless router and a host caused the host to attempt a reconnection during which time it retransmitted it’s credentials, which with WPA could be decrypted with some nasty tools you can get from bad people. WPA2 resolves that. I had the web guy at my last place of employ demonstrate this for me. 

Really, the ways to secure a wireless router that are effective is to turn off WDS, disable PnP and use strong encryption with a good random password. Mac Address filtering will keep the nosy neighbors at bay I suppose so it’s not entirely worthless, by you can download wireless scanners that can find all nearby wireless AP’s AND tell you what their SSID is, even if they do not broadcast it. 

Bob


On Feb 16, 2014, at 11:24 , J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> On 2/16/14, 12:13 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>> And turn off SSID broadcast - you'll have to type the SSID
>> manually in order to connect the first time, but it will keep your
>> router under the radar.
>> 
> 
> I had broadcasting turned off for years and wanted to keep it that way, but as soon as I got an Android device it couldn't find the network. I had to type in the credentials every time I got back home, or toggled wifi on. Very annoying, and I finally turned broadcasting back on.
> 
> Apple devices try to ping all known networks repeatedly to see if any are active (a trade-off in battery depletion) so they don't have that problem, but Android just scans broadcasted networks to see if it already knows any of them.
> 
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