F12 EEEPC 1000H WLAN with hidden SSID no go

[Robert Moskowitz]

Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 15:14 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>   
>> I don't use hidden SSID much, as it only lends a tiny bit of security
>>     
>
> It doesn't add *ANY* security.
> It *does* add problems.
>
> It doesn't hide your access point, at all.  It still appears as an
> access point that can be used.  Anybody, and everybody, can see that
> there's one there.  It just doesn't have a name associated with it.
>
> And the lack of a name doesn't prevent anyone from using it.

No.  You MUST have the name to associate with the AP.  But all you have 
to do is force a current user of the AP to reassociate to get the name.  
There are now attack tools that will do this for you....