How I cracked my neighbor's WiFi password without breaking a sweat

Re:How I cracked my neighbor's WiFi password without breakin... by archon on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @03:52PM (#4445563)

I'm chagrined to admit that this simple approach didn't even occur to me. I'm interested as well; are there any disadvantages to this?

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Re:How I cracked my neighbor's WiFi password without breakin... by rcxdude on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @04:49PM (#4445832)

It's a terrible way to secure a network. MAC addresses are easily spoofed, and without encryption anyone can sniff your traffic anyway. Even using WEP is better since then there's (usually) a requirement to see a connected client for longer than a few seconds in order to break the encryption. The only reasonable approach for a home network imo in practice is WPA2 PSK with a decent password.

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Re:How I cracked my neighbor's WiFi password without breakin... by ctdonath on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @04:02PM (#4445601)

Convenience. Easier to give a visitor a password than get the device's MAC address and enter it into the router's whitelist.

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