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Seem to be a disparity here If 12 hours is laughably easy, what would you consider really hard? Or were you only thinking of WEP for your first statement?
12 hours is no time at all for brute forcing. It's extremely easy, you click a button and let your PC crunch passwords for several hours. Granted it's a little more eloquent than just guessing passwords nowadays. It would have taken days with older methods.
Why would I have been thinking about WEP? WEP is like trying to break through a wet paper towel.
I'm sure it can be broken after awhile, but why would anyone put in the effort? There are plenty of places to find where people have no password at all.
I'm sure it can be broken after awhile, but why would anyone put in the effort? There are plenty of places to find where people have no password at all.
Exactly.
If the data buzzing around on your network is worth that much effort to get to, then you won't be running wifi.
I'm sure it can be broken after awhile, but why would anyone put in the effort? There are plenty of places to find where people have no password at all.
Which is why I said this:
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Overall, it all really depends on who's attacking you. If someone REALLY wants into your network, they will get in, regardless of your encryption or safeguards like mac filtering.
However, the chances that you'll be targeted by someone like this is extremely slim. They usually go for more low-hanging fruit....there are TONS of people out there who leave their connections wide open.
Standard procedure is to throw WPA or WPA2 on (AES is more secure than TKIP), turn off SSID broadcasting and change the admin username and password from defaults.
Yes, but you have to know the MAC addresses which are allowed to be used.
It's as simple as capturing one frame, for every frame contains both source and destination MAC addresses, in the clear even if encryption is being used.
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It's as simple as capturing one frame, for every frame contains both source and destination MAC addresses, in the clear even if encryption is being used.
Hmmm. Well, that's not fair.
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Seem to be a disparity here 
If 12 hours is laughably easy, what would you consider really hard? Or were you only thinking of WEP for your first statement?
