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Re:Point – A smart house sitter by meowface on Monday November 03, 2014 @09:18AM (#8550834)
>specific MAC addresses and make the access point invisible.

Both of these measures do nothing if any other device is currently connected to the wireless network. A passive attacker will still be able to see your access point (by inspecting packets sent over the air by other devices to the access point) and can spoof a MAC address to connect to it.

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Re:Point – A smart house sitter by icebraining on Monday November 03, 2014 @09:41AM (#8550943)
Not if you're not at home and hence there are no "other devices" sending packets.
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Re:Point – A smart house sitter by meowface on Monday November 03, 2014 @08:48PM (#8554772)
This seems like a rather silly edge case though. What if you accidentally leave a phone or tablet at home and it's sending packets intermittently?

Or what if someone decides to hack you when you are at home?

These are not real security measures.

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