EffoAnderson (Sunday 5th of October 2008 11:22:41 PM)

Booooo, Fear mongering...Share Internet access with those less fortunate. If wifi was free then people wouldn't have problems...Write your Congressman/woman.

elliottveares (Friday 26th of September 2008 03:36:22 PM)

not only could you get there files,you could login to there router(with the default gateway) and change the router setings.

24shandra (Saturday 6th of September 2008 10:53:38 PM)

MAC address filtering and disabling SSID broadcast provide NO SECURITY. WEP is extremely insecure and can be cracked in seconds. Further, it looks like the PSK you used is just a few characters long. Also, changing the router password does NOT prevent people from accessing your wireless network (it only prevents people who already have access to your network from accessing your router.) To secure your network use WPA2 with AES and a 63 character cryptographically secure password.

DoubleDizzle1 (Wednesday 20th of August 2008 12:52:36 PM)

-Admin password change -Mac filter -WPA or even WPA2 encryption -Changing the SSID default name -turn off broadcast those 5 things will go a long way.

sargentjaskaran (Tuesday 19th of August 2008 02:13:26 AM)

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Shytownwoman (Friday 15th of August 2008 11:29:54 AM)

My problem is that I live in Florida, I have a linksys router connected to a modem. Everytime the electric goes out the router resets to factory defaults, during this time of year this is a daily occurance,making my computer unsecured. Is there anything I can do about this?

SuiGen3ris (Tuesday 5th of August 2008 03:16:26 PM)

WEP can be cracked in less than a minute and WPA can be done in an hour or so if you know what you're doing. You shouldn't just use this encryption alone.

24shandra (Saturday 6th of September 2008 11:05:46 PM)

WPA with a cryptographically secure password is NOT crackable with current technology. The only way one can crack it is if you use an insecure password (one less than 20 characters and not random.) The best password is 63 characters (the maximum) and is produced by a secure random number generator.

SuiGen3ris (Sunday 7th of September 2008 12:46:02 AM)

Are you sure anything over 20 characters is impossible to crack with current technology?? I've never seen it done on WPA, but surely with enough packets over a long enough period (maybe weeks or months) it can be done. But I would definitely say unless you are holding the keys to a nuke or something on your network, no hacker would waste their time. I would say changing your password every couple months is also another valuable security measure.

24shandra (Sunday 7th of September 2008 03:18:01 PM)

In theory nothing is uncrackable but if the likelihood of being cracked is near zero then we say it is uncrackable. A 20 char truly random password is very secure but why would you use a 20 char password when you can use 63? WPA is only as strong as the password used to secure it as it is vulnerable to offline attacks. If you have a secure password you don't ever have to change it. No-one as far as I know has cracked a WPA wireless network that has a 20 char cryptographically strong password.