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<blockquote data-quote="Chad Young" data-source="post: 88459" data-attributes="member: 699"><p>Re: Wireless routers</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Partially right. Slight vernacular fix: connect <> transmit in this context - 802.11 devices are radios after all and can be made to transmit without connecting. Many deliberate attacks use this very fact (sending a flood of deauth frames to a WAP, for instance, as a DOS attack). *Most* devices will not try to connect to a secured network that they do not have a key for. However, if I try to connect and punch in a 'guess' for the key, I am tying up some resources on the WAP. Get 3k punters trying to connect on a lark, and your router is too busy saying 'no thanks' to the punters to service the real users.</p><p></p><p>This is, of course, a valid argument for not broadcasting your SSID. If you choose to hide your SSID (i.e., not broadcast), just make sure you have the SSID and PSK somewhere handy just in case!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chad Young, post: 88459, member: 699"] Re: Wireless routers Partially right. Slight vernacular fix: connect <> transmit in this context - 802.11 devices are radios after all and can be made to transmit without connecting. Many deliberate attacks use this very fact (sending a flood of deauth frames to a WAP, for instance, as a DOS attack). *Most* devices will not try to connect to a secured network that they do not have a key for. However, if I try to connect and punch in a 'guess' for the key, I am tying up some resources on the WAP. Get 3k punters trying to connect on a lark, and your router is too busy saying 'no thanks' to the punters to service the real users. This is, of course, a valid argument for not broadcasting your SSID. If you choose to hide your SSID (i.e., not broadcast), just make sure you have the SSID and PSK somewhere handy just in case! [/QUOTE]
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