Secure Your Wifi - Or Else!

[brutal]

Some investigation.

That said, leaving your access points unsecured, you're more likely to get a nastygram from your internet provider accusing you of serving up copyrighted porn via bi-torrent.

[TFOGGER]

Home network is MAC filtered with a WPA2 key to boot(got sick of the neighbor leeching wifi and sucking bandwidth. Wide open here at the shop, for our customers to use.

[Irving]

This story is full of stupid.

[cofi]

no knock warrants suck dick

[Zundfolge]

Secure Your Wifi - Or Else!

Actually the lesson here is if you're up to no good DON'T secure your WiFi as it'll make the cops go easier on you.

Because most people aren't stupid enough to make obvious threats from their own home Internet connection, the corollary principle also holds: if a home does have an open WiFi connection, investigators might want to ease away from the flashbangs-and-SWAT-team approach; the threat of getting it wrong is a real one.

The simple fact is that as long as police are protected from prosecution, law suits or even dismissal for acting on bad intel, they'll continue to do it and not care who's rights they stomp on or how many household pets they murder.

[asmo]

I white list MAC addresses. It's a pain but it ensures even if someone is brute forcing my key, they can't do anything once they've wasted days getting it.

Think about it for more than a couple of seconds and you will see why MAC filters don't actually add any extra security..

Hint: everything in wireless is a broadcast.. So I see all the legit Macs anyway. Changing a MAC to match is much more trivial than banging your WPA keys.

[asmo]

Actually the lesson here is if you're up to no good DON'T secure your WiFi as it'll make the cops go easier on you.

This. Besides it also lends to plausible deniability.

[losttrail]

Welcome to the Police States of Amerika.

[Byte Stryke]

Passwords for wi-fi are like locking the doors on your convertible...

it keeps the honest ones honest, if I really want into your network, there are too many ways to pull the password right out of the air.

Mac address filtering?.. OK, it's gonna take another minute.

[TFOGGER]

Passwords for wi-fi are like locking the doors on your convertible...

it keeps the honest ones honest, if I really want into your network, there are too many ways to pull the password right out of the air.

Mac address filtering?.. OK, it's gonna take another minute.

Like any lock, wireless security measures can be broken. As you said, it keeps honest people honest, and makes the open network down the street more attractive, as thieves are naturally lazy...