Originally posted by Pete D: I have, but I usually don't. No encryption = teh suck. I don't want other people sniffing my data.
I got my router locked down fo sho.
How?
Anyone with a packet sniffer can get your WEP password by collecting enough packets (as little as 5 minutes if you are sending a lot of packets). MAC address locking is the same thing, every packet moving on your network has a MAC address listed along with it. Its not hard to spoof a MAC address. No broadcast SSID? Oh yeah, network stumblers will find them too...
And the people that are going to do that are going to waste their time with the traffic that I'll be sending wirelessly. I really doubt the traffic that City of Heroes is sending from my laptop to the router is really going to be that interesting to them.
I understand that, but I'm just saying that it isn't really that 'locked down.'
I suggest also mapping stating routes and turning off DHCP, or just have DHCP spit out enough IP addresses for known people on your network.
I don't claim to be totally secure, I just claim to be more secure then the next guy... essentially making me a non-target.
