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Someone's said in the Ars Technica comments that MAC addresses are freely available in the packets-in-flight, and MACs are spoofable, so MAC filtering will only
by EvilTerran 14y ago
Someone's said in the Ars Technica comments that MAC addresses are freely available in the packets-in-flight, and MACs are spoofable, so MAC filtering will only deter the casual, passing wifi-borrower, not anyone actually determined to gain access.
- nollidge 14y ago> MAC filtering will only deter the casual, passing wifi-borrower, not anyone actually determined to gain access. Isn't that true of WPA and WPA2 though also?
- rcxdude 14y agoWPA2 is as strong as the password used on it, so it can easily be strong enough to deter any attacker from that perspective.
- EvilTerran 14y agoWPA2 with good password, at least, would put up a non-negligable barrier in terms of the number crunching required; in contrast, getting around MAC filtering would take effectively no time at all.
- commandar 14y agoThe only in-the-wild attacks against WPA2 are variations of brute-force attacks. There are precomputed rainbow tables of common SSID+passphrase combinations floating around, but as a general rule, WPA2 with a sufficiently complex passphrase should be secure against anyone who doesn't have a massive compute cluster at their disposal.