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Old 8th February 2008 | 09:00
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Saab Dastard
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even though there is no WPA/WPSK encoding then your router is still secure.
I have to take issue with that - it is very easy to spoof a MAC address.

Unencrypted network means a wifi packet analyser can read all the packets, then it is trivial to obtain the MAC address and voila - access granted.

Even WEP adds a layer of encryption to break (relatively easily). For proper security, WPA2 is the best - WPA is much better than WEP, but still vulnerable to determined hackers.

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