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    Dangers of the internet

    This is not news to many but I realize I need to inform.

    Let say you have a wireless connection with wpa2 encryption and think your safe. Your not.

    Any wireless connection today is easily crackable. And that means I can drive up your house and access your network to download amounts of childporn, to your harddrive from your network.

    That is incredible intimidating

    I know it's old news. but I think this is the announcements that needs to be given every once in then.

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    Re: Dangers of the internet

    isn't really a danger of the internet, more a danger of wireless networking

    like you said, most people will realize that there is no such thing as 100% secure wireless communication

    I still find it shocking that so many people think having a password like 1234567 will help as well
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    Re: Dangers of the internet

    It's my understanding that WPA2-AES hasn't actually been cracked yet and if you have a very long, random character password you've got no chance with a standard laptop of even attempting to crack it.

    http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r212...PAWPA2-cracked

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    Re: Dangers of the internet

    You can always limit the access to you're router by MAC address list.

    Cheers


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    Re: Dangers of the internet

    mac address lists do nothing to stop an attacker, they can easily spoof a mac address.

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    Re: Dangers of the internet

    WPA2 has not been cracked. That is bull ****.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10...eless_hacking/

    This guys is running a bunch of crap. It still comes down to weak passwords and specific targets. The Russians aren't outside my house with a botnet of a 100 nvidia gpus to bust my network. What ever.

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    Re: Dangers of the internet

    WEP keys can be cracked. But even that can take hours. Not the same for WPA-2. It's much more secure.


    Here's the other thing about home WiFi security. The real "attacker" you're trying to stop is your neighbor or something stealing your internet connection. Not some super hacker. You just need enough to make them not bother, 99.99% of the time. Even using a hidden ESSID can be enough for that, though simply using WPA-2 is probably the best idea.
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    Re: Dangers of the internet

    I wasn't aware that WPA2 was cracked yet... I was under the impression it was more or less bullet proof for the moment.

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    Re: Dangers of the internet

    Well I know nothing about routers, but we use WPA2-AES with a 50 digit password. I hope that's enough.

    Oh and MAC filtering for extras.
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    Re: Dangers of the internet

    About the mac address stuff. How would you know their mac address without having access to the network? If you spoofed the routers mac address would that just bypass the access list and always let you in?
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