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Security Exposure: Sniffing
Risk:
- Bad guy reading TCP/IP packets you send, including passwords, credit card numbers
- http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/excerpt/wirlsshacks_chap1
Solutions:
- Wireless Encryption Protocol (WEP)
- MAC filtering
- Change your SSID and don't broadcast it
- Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunneling
- Strong encryption – SSH, https
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