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Originally Posted by supernova1965
No-one said too use MAC filtering and SSID hiding alone to protect the network
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Are you sure?
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Originally Posted by AstroJunk
+1 for MAC address blocking. That will all but sort out access to your network - and funny how that article never mentions this basic and fairly robust security measure.
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Sounds like a fairly strong recommendation that MAC filtering is all you need.
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but every layer that makes the intruder have to spend more time parked outside your house means they are closer to being discovered. The idea is to make it slower to invade so they move on to easier targets.
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I can see where you're coming from, but my point is that with a strong WPA2 password with good SSID, you don't
need to make it slower to invade, as they are stopped dead in their tracks purely from the mathematical barrier presented by the encryption in the WPA2 standard.
If the standard was a bit weaker and easier to overcome then I'd be agreeing with you about extra layers of security, but in my opinion adding MAC filtering and SSID hiding on top of WPA2 is completely unnecessary.