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| jbox:
To summarise all the 133t talk to the non-h4x0rs on the board: (a) Security is a sliding scale, not a "YES" or "NO". (b) Thus, every extra obstacle you can add helps. (c) Someone committed to hacking your network can always do it. (d) But you *can* make them spend more time & money then they will cost you. People like IBM, NSA, FBI and other TLAs can always hack you if they really wanted to. The main idea here is to push the random drive-by hacker towards hacking someone else's network by making yours too much work to bother with. It's exactly the same way you try to discourage random buglers by trying to make your house harder to rob then it's worth. |
| ChadTower:
Anything at all beyond a 5 minute effort will cause them to drive to the next house, really. There are so many wide open targets that any effort at all isn't worth trying. |
| Samstag:
And along those lines (pushing hackers toward easier game) don't go out and buy a high-power router when you don't really need one. The longer your range, the greater your risk. Neighbors may be more tempted to try to get in if they get a strong signal all the time, and drive-by's are more likely to find you. |
| patrickl:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 12, 2007, 09:35:44 am --- A lot of the "hackers" I've talked to were just script kiddies that didn't understand what the crap they downloaded was doing... so any potential hurdle could be an entry killer, one more is just that much better. --- End quote --- Well I understand that, but my point is that it would have taken so much effort and time to get to that last hurdle that a few seconds extra would not deter that hacker. Suppose someone has been monitoring your network traffic for months and did all that was necessary to get in and then he needs only to copy the MAC-address from a single frame. I don't think any hacker that determined would back off at that point. BTW you can protect your WLAN to be quite unbreakable by using the RADIUS protocol. Some cheap routers can be upgraded with open source firmware. Not sure what the status is but a few months ago it was all the rave. I'm still thinking if I should upgrade mine. Not so much because I need the protection, but it does sound cool to be really well protected. |
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