Live USB wireless connection

[max bianco]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Daniel Y. Zhang <yozhang at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> >From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSID:
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>> "This method is not secure, because every time someone connects to the
>> network, the SSID is transmitted in cleartext even if the wireless
>> connection is otherwise encrypted. An eavesdropper can passively sniff
>> the wireless traffic on that network undetected (with something like
>> Kismet), and wait for someone to connect, revealing the SSID."
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>> poc
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> Thanks for your reply! So hidding SSID makes no sense at all. The funny
> thing is in my DLINK router, there is a check box to hide the SSID which
> seems an illusion to the users that hiding SSID is safer. I alway avoid

It keeps people from accidentally connecting to an open access point.
In my neighborhood there are plenty of them. If the laptop fails  to
connect to my own AP I notice it sometimes connects to whatever open
AP is available. A deficiency in NM maybe? In any case, hiding the
SSID,  won't hide your network from a hacker, as pointed out by others
 finding an a "hidden" AP is trivial but many people are oblivious or
just don't mind connecting to someone else's AP. So hiding the SSID
isn't a security feature per se but why sniff out a hidden one when
there are easier targets that don't bother hiding in the first place
and use WEP to boot.

Max



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