[Gllug] [OT] How secure is MAC Address restrictions on wi-fi?

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On 25/7/2005, "Wiehe, Simon" <simon.wiehe at csfb.com> wrote:

>Does anyone know how secure MAC Address restrictions are on a wi-fi network?

Not at all.  Anyone can spoof the MAC address.

>Ideally I would not broadcast the network's existence and use WEP but the VPN
>setup of a work supplied laptop will not work if I do not broadcast the SSID
>and I cannot get WEP to work with it at the moment, although it is meant to
>work fine.

WEP isn't much more secure, either.  Not broadcasting the SSID doesn't
help either.  You just wait until you see some packets and you'll know
the SSID.
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