| Rich Freeman on 14 Jul 2011 13:10:25 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] personal WiFi security: Stopping the barbarians at the gates |
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Floyd Johnson <fljohnson3@isp.com> wrote: > What, then, is/should be standard practice for repelling the > piggybacking byte-burglars who want to break into our home LANs? My understanding is that WPA2 has not been broken, so unless you give out the key you should be fine. Of course, brute-force is always a risk if you use a low-complexity pass-phrase - you only get full security with a random key, which is of course next-to-impossible to enter. If somebody does know of a way to hack WPA2 reliably I'll be turning off my wireless, at least until I deploy a VPN or something. Rich ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug