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Originally Posted by Dooghan
My 8 year son could have your MAC address and be in your network in 5 sec. It so easy to get around MAC filtering. Every pack of data that is sent to your router has your MAC address in the clear and un-encrypted. I change my MAC address to your MAC address, which is easily done, and you router doesn't know anything different. I go and hack some Fed Gov site and the AFP has a chat to you instead of me. MAC filtering is next to useless along with turning off your SSID
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I suppose your 8 year old son drives and is going to park in front of my house and steal my bandwidth, i should be worried?
I got my computer science degree in 1978 and have been in the industry since that time. The number of people who know anything about computers or even care about them (except as a device to use) are vanishingly small. I will say it again, MAC filtering, non broadcasting SSID's etc are generally sufficient to protect a home network. Your mileage may vary, but as i said I have two neighbours within range whom i know well and neither are likely to steal my bandwidth.
What are the odds of
(1) more than 20 people within range of your router
(2) some of the 20 having any computer knowledge at all
(3) some of those having the knowledge and desire to hack your wireless connection
(4) some of those being of any interest whatsoever to the AFP
I reckon you have better odds of winning tattslotto than of getting your home wireless router hacked.
Cheers
Paul