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Posted on August 24th, 2009 by Barry Collins
How to keep freeloaders off your Wi-Fi connection
Here’s an ever-so-slightly ingenious way of keeping spongers, hackers and the proletariat off your home or office Wi-Fi connection – just rename your router as follows:
(Image via F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen)
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August 24th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Sorry but would it not be sufficient to use encryption such as WPA or WEP? Ideally WPA since I read it is more secure…instead of calling something virus exe etc…? The one above is a rather dumb suggestion I reckon…
August 24th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
@ D Ortu:
I think your humour detection circuits have developed a fault.
August 24th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Given that WEP is as secure as a wet cloth and WPA2 with a 40+ character random key can be hacked in minutes using a rainbow table, the suggestion here won’t fool people like us (well, dome of us), but it certainly will the freeloader’s in your road. (unless they read PC Pro of course)
August 24th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
wireless encryption is NEVER secure if there is a packet sniffer out there to match it, and believe me the hackers are ALWAYS ahead – get wired its the only way to be sure.
August 24th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
And who said humor was dead in the I.T. market? I Guess anyone who has spoken to the above posters….
August 25th, 2009 at 8:51 am
That’s completely brilliant, Barry. Somewhere here I ahave an email exchange with a chap about encryption keys and wireless, which Tim wasnts me to chuck in as a Blog entry. All I have to do is find it…
August 25th, 2009 at 11:25 am
Here’s another idea – run independent wifi routers – one secured as much as you can, no SSID broadcast etc and actually connected to the inetrnet. The other one, unsecured, broadcasting SSID….and no internet connection?
January 5th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
Cool article you got here. I’d like to read something more about this theme. The only thing it would also be great to see here is a few pictures of such gizmos as gps jammer.