how safe do you feel wireless network is ?

Gillbot · Post by **Gillbot** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:29 pm

A friend got past my 128bit wep key in less than 45 minutes so it's not that hard. I had SSID off and MAC filtering on as well. My point is, if they want it, they are going to get in. It's not really that hard. Enabling any protection is just going to keep out the snoopers that happen to be passing by.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:38 pm

Depends what you're talking about. At home or a free wireless hotspot? Hotspots are NOT secure. Anyone could be intercepting your traffic. Never enter any passwords, credit card info, or anything of a personal nature at a public hotspot unless you're using a VPN.

At home, assuming you have WPA encryption and a strong encryption key, you're totally secure.

Pikachu · Post by **Pikachu** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:17 am

I live in army quarters.... come on down and just see all the wireless networks. For personal wireless... big no-go, for what we use (i.e. campus internet, and the military wireless) 100% secure....

Justlookin · Post by **Justlookin** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:01 pm

OK, I'm fully wireless if I want to be, but no I don't trust it. I live in an apartment building and in one room in my Apt I get my own system signal.... If I move one room down I get the next door neighbors wireless signal...If I go to Koo Koo's Apt. upstairs and across the hall with my Lappy, I get a signal from the buildings across the street from ours. I guess if you have the right security with your Bank it probably won't matter. Makes you wonder if you can't just drop your own Internet to save money and use the free sh*t....LOL

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:46 pm

Holy old resurrected post, Batman!

If you use WPA encryption with a strong password there's no way to crack it. Period. WEP is woefully broken. With the right software I can crack a WEP key in a few minutes.

Justlookin · Post by **Justlookin** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 1:20 am

FlyingPenguin wrote:Holy old resurrected post, Batman!

If you use WPA encryption with a strong password there's no way to crack it. Period. WEP is woefully broken. With the right software I can crack a WEP key in a few minutes.

No Sh*t FP...I was just checking the dates on this and can't figure out why it popped up as a new post on my screen. I just commented on it and thought nothing more about it till you posted and it popped up as a new post again. That is wierd as sh*t. MUST BE SOME COMMUNISTS OR SOMETHING messing with the New Year. I think the Commies are the ones that wind the tie bands on the bread bags backwards too....LOL

ZYFER · Post by **ZYFER** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 5:41 am

It popped up as a new thread because someone voted on the poll

If your equipment supports it, mine as well use WPA2, WPA at the bare minimum. Sad part is the Nintendo DS supports only WEP so I had to buy the Nintendo WiFi adapter to use it online, I wasn't going to set my router to WEP for that.

They need to add additional features to home routers, like banning a MAC address from connecting if it fails a specified number of connection attempts within a certain specified period of time.

Gillbot · Post by **Gillbot** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:01 am

I use WPA, no SSID broadcast and MAC filtering plus I have a secure tunnel VPN on my work laptop so I'm not too worried about it.

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 12:23 pm

No Sh*t FP...I was just checking the dates on this and can't figure out why it popped up as a new post on my screen

It's because it's a poll and apparently there are people here who vote on very old polls. Once someone votes, even w/o commenting, the post shows up again as a current thread.
Not that there's any harm in them but IMO, polls should have some type of time limit.

Walleye · Post by **Walleye** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:59 pm

i wont go wireless, but that's not for security reasons.

i wont go wireless because i like wires.

ZYFER · Post by **ZYFER** » Thu May 01, 2008 12:40 am

Get me some paddles, everyone, CLEAR!

Wow, looks like we saved another thread from the journey to the afterlife :lol

Walleye · Post by **Walleye** » Fri May 02, 2008 12:22 am

haha, i guess in my boredom from trying to avoid doing my schoolwork, i resurrected a couple threads

TheSovereign · Post by **TheSovereign** » Fri May 02, 2008 8:21 am

my wireless is wide open however the ssid is "wiresharkFTW"

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Fri May 02, 2008 9:58 am

TheSovereign wrote:my wireless is wide open however the ssid is "wiresharkFTW"

LOL

mile

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:03 pm

To revisit this again, and I'm not really sure we covered it, if your HOME wifi is secured with WPA (or even better WPA2) then you're fine. WEP is easily cracked, although the likelihood that you have a hacker next door with the right tools isn't very high.

Most people are just concerned about keeping their neighbors from accidentally (or intentionally) connecting to their Wifi and mooching Internet, not someone hacking their network.

HOWEVER using a Wifi hot-spot is another matter entirely. You should NEVER trust an open hotspot. If I'm on an open hot spot I would never use anything that sends passwords or info in the clear, but even an SSL connection is no guarantee because on an open network you ARE exposed to a man-in-the-middle attack.

Bottom line I would never do anything like online banking on a public wifi network.

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