Tim (re hidden SSIDs): >> It doesn't add *ANY* security. >> It *does* add problems. >> >> It doesn't hide your access point, at all. It still appears as an >> access point that can be used. Anybody, and everybody, can see that >> there's one there. It just doesn't have a name associated with it. >> >> And the lack of a name doesn't prevent anyone from using it. Bill Davidsen: > FUD. How can you hold two diametrically opposed ideas in your brain without your > head exploding? You idiot. You don't understand what you're reading, and the one spouting the FUD is you - that hiding an SSID has anything, at all, even to the slightest degree, to do with security. Get a fucking clue. > Look at your first two lines and reconcile "adds no security" > with "harder to use." The two have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Security is about *preventing* unauthorised use, the SSID has absolutely nothing to do with security. And *no* amount of futzing around with it will ever "secure" a network. Being "harder to use" without it is about breaking normal network functionality. Those people that are authorised to use the system, now, have a more difficult time connecting to the right access point, or avoiding connecting to the wrong one. When will idiots get it through their dense heads that making something more difficult to use, normally/properly, has absolutely nothing to do with making something more secure. And that publicly repeating that /hide the SSID/ crap actually causes harm. Because of it, we have people foolishly breaking their networking, and thinking that they're securing it. Do not hide the SSID, it is a COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
