Is Hiding Your Wireless SSID Really More Secure?

Friday, September 17, 2010 at 3:01PM
Bob Appleby in Networking, Security

Very interesting article posted by lifehacker about setting up your network wireless router and thinking that you are securing it by not broadcasting the SSID. While this may help in keeping it safe from honest people that don’t have the tools to sniff out you network, anyone that knows what they are doing and has the software tools available to them can find your network without the SSID being broadcast. However, the are some real negative problems that you might run into with older wireless equipment not being able to find your router if it is not broadcasting. So you are better off with putting strong passwords on your WPA security settings than turning off the SSID broadcast function.

Is Hiding Your Wireless SSID Really More Secure?

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