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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 12:39 pm
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Originally Posted by SpaceBass
Wireless at home is a tricky beast. The only strong protection is WPA. WEP (on older models) and MAC filtering are 100% worthless. In other threads others have pointed out "yeah, but who is going to bother when there are tons of open APs around?".... anyone 12 year old with free software is who!
Turn on WPA on your router and you are golden (of course Steve Gibson would suggest a 63bit password from www.grc.com/pass... which is what I do and keep it on a network share on my lan and on a usb stick)
Even if you have WEP and MAC filtering it's still easy to crack? I'm not a techie, so I didn't know that.

Could you tell me how WPA differs and why it's stronger? I've got a 2-3 year old Linksys router, and don't remember seeing it on there.
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