If a user can manage to gather together enough brain cells to turn off their SSID then they can turn on WEP. At that point hiding your SSID absolutely pointless (ot's not 2002 any more)
Actually one reason for not hiding your SSID is to allow people in the neighbourhood to see your base station and choose a suitably distant channel, rather than everyvody sitting in 11 and making a shitty connection even more shitty.
WPA and their ilk tend to be easy enough to break if you want to put the effort in (the usual poorly selected key), but I couldn't really be bothered.
Anyway the homehub is interesting as for once it's easer than attacking either the wireless network or the client machines.
Matthew Robinson : I suggest that you should read a little more before making such statements, it is perfectly possible to forge an ARP request for a WEP based network without seeing any traffic. Once again things have moved forward since 2002
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Errr not at all
If a user can manage to gather together enough brain cells to turn off their SSID then they can turn on WEP. At that point hiding your SSID absolutely pointless (ot's not 2002 any more)
Actually one reason for not hiding your SSID is to allow people in the neighbourhood to see your base station and choose a suitably distant channel, rather than everyvody sitting in 11 and making a shitty connection even more shitty.
WPA and their ilk tend to be easy enough to break if you want to put the effort in (the usual poorly selected key), but I couldn't really be bothered.
Anyway the homehub is interesting as for once it's easer than attacking either the wireless network or the client machines.
Matthew Robinson : I suggest that you should read a little more before making such statements, it is perfectly possible to forge an ARP request for a WEP based network without seeing any traffic. Once again things have moved forward since 2002