[Leaplist] an ipcop question

[Aaron Morrison]

On 17 Dec 2008, at 07:32, Hank Lambert wrote:

>>
> I seem to do OK with the SSID off. Again, the Mac refused to play
> friendly, but it is the only one. I know that disabling the SSID and
> mac filtering isn't security, it's just another road block. If someone
> stumbles across my network, I hope to have enough things in play to
> make them want to move on to the next. My best guess is that if
> someone really wants into my network, the SSID and mac filtering can
> be overcome in minutes. And WPA has recently been cracked as well.


WPA has not been cracked. There is a small chink in the TKIP armor  
that may allow ARP or DNS poisoning, but that's not the same thing as  
recovering the keys used (cracking).

See this ( http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/wpa-cracked.ars )  
article, and this ( http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-170.htm or http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-170.mp3 
  ) which explains what's really going on.

If you have reports of otherwise, I'd like to see it.

--am