The NSA can get around that, but script kiddies and most others can't. The ones that can, have jobs and pay for their own internet access.
No network, wired or wireless is 100% secure. If you are doing something that sensitive, it should be on a computer not connected to a network at all.
/johnny
“No network, wired or wireless is 100% secure. If you are doing something that sensitive, it should be on a computer not connected to a network at all.”
I did not say that wired is 100% secure but what I do know is that it is MORE secure than wireless.
I have only one computer on the internet. The others are isolated. ;-)
Exactly. You can restrict access to particular MACS.
Plus the regular 64/128 bit password phrase/encryption stuff.
My AP will also stop sending the SSID nodename out, so it shows up on non-secured devices, but shows up as “UNKNOWN”
Dude you can spoof a mac
People keep saying that, but it probably isn't true. Remember how they tried for years to prevent the export of the more advanced encryption types? Because they couldn't break it. They gave it up, I'm sure, not because they could finally break anything but because the whole exercise proved to be a waste of time. That horse left the barn already. Decent encryption keeps them out too except they have the advantage of just breaking in and physically tapping in behind the firewall. So wired or wireless won't make much difference.