Re: Why Your Wi-Fi Needs a Password!
Hiding the SSID is a pretty poor way of being secure. Any hacker that uses InSSIDer or NetStumbler will find hidden SSIDs in seconds.
MAC addresses can be cloned also so MAC filtering is also pretty worthless and makes it a pain in the butt adding people that come to your house that want to get on your wireless.
Use WPA2 and that's really the best you can do.
I agree to the above but one more thing. Using a word or combination of words/number that are in the dictionary does not gives you much security. A hacker/cracker has just to drive by where you live, if you are using wpa he just need a sample or your traffic and takes that home. Then he uses a dictionary attack against your hashed password much like what you use when cracking windows login/passwords and it could take them hours, days, weeks but they dont have to worry, they have time in their hands as much home users dont change their passwords.
So use wpa2, your password must not be in the dictionary (ex. dwj42p6fjsd8wk50wf5ar563a3dfa6d3) make it as long as your router allow and change it as often as you can and you wont have to worry as it will be much to hard to breake it and by the time they do you have change your password already. I know changing the password is a pain that is the hardest part for the home user. At the end, if you worry too much shut down your wifi and use cat5.
