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"TW" <twilckenATmsnDOTcom> wrote in message
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> MAC filtering isn't really a security solution at all, since every packet
> sent across your wireless network includes your MAC address. Anyone with a
> good sniffer WILL discover your MAC or ANY MAC on your wireless network.
> MAC addresses CAN be spoofed, this isn't very hard to do at all, Thus MAC
> filtering doesn't offer any security at all.
>

That isnt 100% true. It offers SOME protection and depending on where you
live, it may or may not be just an added extra. If you live in NYC, you need
it and every single thing else that you can get but if you live in rural
Australia like I do then the level of protection you "need" is a lot less
simply because rural people have a hell of a lot more to worry about than
hacking each other. Also, because there is not a lot of anything out here,
good hackers tend to migrate to Sydney and other capitals in each state. So
why bother doing ANY protection at all? Well, because there ARE people who
wouldnt find it impossible to use YOUR internet to download their illegal
and/or immoral stuff through YOUR connection and let YOU take the blame for
it.

> Disabling SSID doesn't offer any security either, since every packet sent
> across your wireless network includes the SSID, even when turn off
> broadcasting SSID is set to off.. Again, anyone with a good sniffer WILL

Try thinking about need first. Get to know your client, your area and what
is needed. In rural Australia, for example, a certain company of 4 people
like to tell people that everything you said is needed. They lose more
customers than they impress because it ISN'T all "needed" here and certainly
does play havoc with certain customers depending on what they are doing at
the time. Don't automatically assume, with wi-fi, that you need everything
going.