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Old Sep 3, 2010 | 2:25 am
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Originally Posted by thegeneral
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A wireless network is ALWAYS insecure. It's just sitting there. No matter what you do, someone can get on that network. You can hide the SSID, restrict the Mac addresses, turn down the radio strength, use WPA2 and the best network settings. Someone can still get on it. The most likely case that this happens is that one of your neighbors doesn't want to pay for internet and uses yours.
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Not true. I have yet to hear of people cracking into WPA2 AES protected wifi networks using strong passwords.

At the current time, WPA2 AES wifi is probably secure enough for pretty much all residential users.
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